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["Alexander Hansen" <address@hidden>]

On 9/11/06, Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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'

Did you start XFree86 before running that?

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

There are some indeed nicer options for later OS X versions (e.g.
open-x11 and scripting tools that let you run the application from an
icon)

--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter (still)