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[Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden>]

On Monday, September 11, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> On 9/11/06, Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just installed Fink and used Fink commander to install texmacs and
> > everything worked perfectly.
> >
> > However, in the instructions on the texmacs website it says to open a
> > terminal window and type "open-x11 texmacs &". When I do this I get a
> > response of "open-x11: Command not found.".
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob Lounsbury
>
> You're presumably not using Apple's X11 (since the 10.2.x beta has
> long since been pulled).  There's no open-x11 in XFree86.
>
> You'll have to start XFree86 and do it the old-fashioned way:
>
> (e.g. from a Terminal.app window)
> env DISPLAY=:0 texmacs &
>
> or just run
>
> texmacs &
>
> from an X terminal (the '&' is optional)
> --
> Alexander K. Hansen
> Fink Documenter (still)

From the terminal window after typing "env DISPLAY=:0 texmacs &" I get,

 "Fatal error: I failed to connect to Xserver in 
'x_display_rep::x_display_rep'
0"

From the X terminal it works, but man that is not as nice as in windoze 
or linux.

Thanks