Author: Eric Jensen
Date: 21:22:11 07/25/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 17:48:16, George Sobala wrote: >On July 25, 2004 at 16:31:51, Eric Jensen wrote: > >>Alright: I think this is my problem. When I try to run it in X11, it doesn't >>follow the right path. When I use teh regular terminal, it doesn't have the >>right display environment. What I think I'll do is start over with Xfree86 now >>that I have fink... uninstall and reinstall scid and xboard if I have to, and >>that (I hope) should fix my problem as I understand it, although my >>understanding is shaky at best. >> >>If however, that doesn't work, I'll probably have more questions. > >Put the following line at the start of your .profile file and Terminal will find >the X11 display properly: > >export DISPLAY=:0.0 > >( You can test this just by typing the above line in a Terminal and then typing >xboard or scid , but unless it is in .profile your Terminal will not remember it >for next time ) > > >Also, what does your > >echo $PATH > >show? Hopefully this will clarify everything: I have TWO terminal windows... one is the terminal window... and another is an X11 terminal window that I have from installing X11... X11 apps dont really work in the original terminal window. my PATH for the X11 terminal window (echo $PATH) is: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/ericjensen:/usr/X11R6/bin that works for X11 stuff my normal terminal reads: /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin now... I think I want this to read: /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/Users/ericjensen:/usr/X11R6/bin and it should then recognize both the fink stuff and the X11 stuff... is that incorrect? secondly... in the old terminal: export DISPLAY=:0.0 does nothing. it says it can't open display: 0.0 lastly, I do not know how to change the path because when i try to save teh .profile file pico returns "cannot open file for writing" even after the chmod u+w .profile thing... so what should I do?
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