Downloading quotes

Tristan Chase ubu69 at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 10 10:32:10 EST 2004


X11 reads /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc by default unless you have a 
~/.xinitrc file. You can create one easily:

cp  /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc

You can then modify it to suit your needs.

-Tristan
(Forgot to Reply All first time, oops!)
On Thursday, Dec 9, 2004, at 17:39 America/New_York, Dave Reed wrote:

> I think it has to do with what reads .bashrc and what reads .profile. 
> It
> may be that the terminal app reads one and the X11 xterm reads the
> other. I just haven't bothered looking into it. Glad you got it
> working.
>
> On Thursday 09 December 2004 17:14, Benjamin So wrote:
>> I did an rm on ~/.xinitrc and copied the contents of .profile (which
>> consisted of "test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh") to
>> .bashrc, and now it works. I'm still not quite sure what's going on,
>> though.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On 9/12/2004, at 20:23, Dave Reed wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Actually I didn't read that close enough - it added it to ~/.profile
>>> and
>>> I think I put the line in ~/.bashrc. I had been using tcsh on
>>> Soloaris/Linux for the last 13 years but decided to give bash a try
> on
>>> OS X. I'm not clear on the difference in bash between .profile and
>>> .bashrc. I don't have a .xinitrc on my OS X machine. I do on my
> Linux
>>> box which I use to start my window manager.
>>>
>>> Unless you want to run a X11 based window manager on OS X, I don't
>>> think
>>> you want a ~/.xinitrc
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>



More information about the gnucash-user mailing list