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[Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden>]

On Monday, September 11, 2006, at 01:13 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> 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?

I am still very new to all of this. How to you start XFree86?


> >  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)