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Re: [TeXmacs] Re: problem loading texmacs


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  • From: Martin Costabel <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Re: problem loading texmacs
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:14:43 +0200
David G. Wonnacott wrote:
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Another option I use on the Mac is to just ignore Apple's "Terminal"
application entirely and start an xterm in X (one typically starts
automatically when you start the X server). The xterm mill have the
DISPLAY set properly, and you can just type "texmacs" or whatever you
want.

The problem that many not-so-experienced users have with xterm is that apart from DISPLAY, the rest of the environment that you get by default in xterm is very rudimentary. So if you type "texmacs", you will normally get "command not found", and when you type the whole path "/sw/bin/texmacs", texmacs will start, but not find its helper applications. There are of course remedies for this, but all of them are more complicated than setting DISPLAY in Terminal.app or using 'open-x11'.

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Martin

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