[X-Unix] open-x11

Christina Huggins chuggins at fidlet.com
Fri Jan 27 13:11:33 PST 2006


Hmmm...I tried that.  It didn't seem to do it - i still get the same  
error.  Any other ideas?


On Jan 27, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Adrian Simmons wrote:

> Christina Huggins wrote:
>> /opt/local/bin/gimp
> Is that where gimp is? Usually Fink installs things in /sw,  
> although you may have darwinports installed and have gimp installed  
> with that?
>
>> (Note that I can open gimp fine through an x terminal like  
>> aterm.)  Does anyone have a clue as to what might be going on?
> The usual advice is to edit your bash profile (assuming you're  
> using Tiger and the default shell), which can be found at  
> ~/.profile and add the following (assuming you have both fink and  
> darwinports installed):
>
> # set up the path for fink and darwinports
> if [ -f /sw/bin/init.sh ]
> then
>     . /sw/bin/init.sh
> fi
>
> if [ -f /opt/local/bin/port ]
> then
>     append_path PATH /opt/local/bin
>     append_path MANPATH /opt/local/share/man
> fi
>
>
> And this to make X11 apps launch from terminal, set the display:
>
> [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && export DISPLAY=':0.0'
>
>
> HTH
>
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