Weird X11 bug?

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palex

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Greetings...
I have configured X11 to launch automatically upon system startup. When it does, an Xterm window appears. However, I cannot open additional windows. When I go Applications>Terminal (or Command-N), the menu bar blinks as if it acknowledged the command, but no new window appears. If I close X11, and reopen it, the first Xterm window will appear again, but the same problem persists. Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
Mac OS X's Terminal.app does not require X11, which is why you might be getting this blinking. Xterm is the terminal application that is used in X11. Once you have X11 launched, you should be able to launch any UNIX application that requires X11 as it's graphical windowing system. X11 and Mac OS X's Quartz/Aqua are two different things.

Usually in Mac OS X, if the application requires X11 it will automatically launch it. Gimp.app is an example of this as is OpenOffice.org for the Mac.
 
This is all within X11. I meant the "Applications" option in the X11 menu bar (not the applications directory)... sorry about that. This had worked at one point (opening multiple xterm windows), but it no longer does. If I ssh to a remote server, and type 'xterm' at the command line, another window will open, but this also does not work at the local command line. How can I get multiple windows? Something may have happened when I configured X11 to launch at start up, or changed the working shell to tcsh.

Thanks again.
 
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