Re: [XonX-Users] XDarwin startup failure

[Patrik M. <pa...@ch...>]

On 03-05-09 8.13, Keary Suska (hie...@pc...) wrote:

> When I try to launch XDarwin, it quits either immediately after OK'ing the
> "full screen" dialog, or a few seconds after if I don't click. If I run
> startx from the terminal (after I have added X11R6 to my path), X seems to
> boot fine, reports no errors, and stays open. So all the troubleshooting
> FAQs are worthless in my case. BTW, startx --quartz does not work for me. I
> get an "unrecognized option" error.
> 
> I don't know if the issue is that I had previously installed Apple's X11,
> but I assumed that XDarwin would overwrite it. As it stands, I can't tell
> which is running as it doesn't show from ps -aux or in the dock.
> 
> Running: OS X 10.2.6
> 
> Other possible issues: I first installed and tried to run OroborOSX, which
> failed because XDarwin proper wasn't installed. So I installed
> XFree86_4.2.1.1 (XDarwin installer), but began experiencing the problem
> above. Looking round, I saw somewhere that you are supposed to first install
> 4.2.0, then 4.2.0.1, then 4.2.1.1. So I did, in that order. Same problem.
> 
> Help?
> 

This is most likely because you have something funny in your shell startup
files. When started from the Finder, XDarwin starts a shell and launches
itself from it (this is done to make sure that any PATH modifications added
in the shell startup files take effect before xinitrc runs). If your shell
startup scripts include anything that requires a response from the user, the
launch will fail. A notable example of this is the command tset set to
require a confirmation (ie it has a ? somewhere), that a lot of people seem
to have in their startup files. Note that tset works fine in 10.1 or lower,
but 10.2 changed something.

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Patrik Montgomery // pa...@ch...