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From: "Alexander Hansen" <address@hidden>
To: "Bob Lounsbury" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Re: [TeXmacs] Os X 10.2.8 help
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:20:17 -0400
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On 9/11/06, Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden> wrote:

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?

There should be an XDarwin icon in Applications. Or you can use
"startx" from the OS X terminal--either way.

>
>> 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)

[TeXmacs] Os X 10.2.8 help, Bob Lounsbury, 09/11/2006
- Re: [TeXmacs] Os X 10.2.8 help, Alexander Hansen, 09/11/2006
  - Re: [TeXmacs] Os X 10.2.8 help, Bob Lounsbury, 09/11/2006
    - Re: Re: [TeXmacs] Os X 10.2.8 help, Alexander Hansen, 09/11/2006
      - Re: [TeXmacs] Os X 10.2.8 help, Bob Lounsbury, 09/11/2006
        
        Re: Re: [TeXmacs] Os X 10.2.8 help, Alexander Hansen, 09/11/2006
        
        Re: Re: [TeXmacs] Os X 10.2.8 help, Bob Lounsbury, 09/12/2006

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