Want to use Terminal.app in rootless XDarwin.

[buc99]

Can Someone jog my memory please. I seem to remember some type of applicationin OSX that let you use the Terminal.app in Xdarwin?

AmI correct?
What was it called?

Thanks.
SA

 

[howardm4]

ain't gonna happen.

Terminal.app is Cocoa/Carbon/Quartz
and XDarwin is X.

Why not use xterm or any of the zilllion
available terminal emulators available
for X?

 

[buc99]

Terminal.app is Cocoa/Carbon/Quartz
and XDarwin is X.

I'm not talking of running the Terminal.app inside X. I'm talking of running X rootless and then launching an X application from the command line in Terminal.app.

Any ideas?
Thanks.
SA

 

[kilowatt]

yeah, if you install OroborOSX, you can do this.

Oroborosx can create documents that, when double clicked, launch the application specified within the bundle.

come to think of it though, this might work:
w00t! this *does* work!!!

start x rootless. Get into terminal.app
type this for an xterm:

xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0

(if xterm isn't in your path, type /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm instead of xterm)

And now an even better solution!
all you have to do is set $DISPLAY to :0.0

so....
bash users can edit .bashrc and add:
DISPLAY=:0.0

tcsh users can edit .cshrc and add:
setenv DISPLAY :0.0

hope thie helps!

 

[lurk]

Howdy,

Just a note the ony thing you need to do is specify the X display to use either via the command line or by setting the DISPLAY environment variable as above.

This will work for rootless servers and rooted ones and it does not depend on Oroborosx. Just good ol' xwindows.

-Eric

 

[buc99]

Yes! That was exactly what I was looking for. Thank You again for your help!

SA