Problem with OS X 10.3

[Tristan Chase]

On Tuesday, Apr 6, 2004, at 12:16 America/New_York, Michel Erard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using a Dual G4 Mac, with OS X 10.3, last night I've installed 
> gnucash with the help of fink. All was running good... no warnings, no 
> errors.
> Now I'm trying to start gnucash but always get this message in my 
> terminal:
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> Do someone know what's going wrong ant what to make against the 
> problem?
>
> thanks Mike
>

Dear Mike,

Check out this link:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/x11.en.html

It explains a lot about many of the problems we run into in the OS X 
world.

I have been playing around with my .xinitrc file (which I copied from 
/private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ) and having it start up with KDE or 
GnuCash instead of xterm. I was amazed (and delighted) that KDE started 
and ran without causing any conflicts with OS X. It's nice to be able 
to work in the Unix side of things with an OS that knows what to do 
with the files it encounters. It makes things much easier for a Unix 
novice like me to be able to tap into the power of Unix without having 
to know all the commands (although I have been learning as I go).

Anyway, I know that this is a little off topic, but it should give OS X 
users a glimmer of hope that these things really work and the solutions 
are often simple ones.

-Tristan
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