I've been trying to run X-Windows from the command prompt on 10.2 on a G4 tower and an iBook. The iBook comes up with the grey screen of death and that's the end of it...any insight? thanks
After installing X-Darwin, from the Aqua login screen, choose Other and use the >console username. This should drop you to a command-prompt. Log in as usual. You may
You might have to modify the path to include /usr/X11R6/bin -- use the 'set env' to do that. You might want to have a valid .xinitrc in your home directory, as well. And then type 'exec startx'.
From my experience, if you enter 'startx' when you end the session you will get the windmill of death. If you end 'exec startx' it exits elegantly to the Aqua login screen. But I have to putz with the .xinitrc file to see if I can exit back to the standard command-prompt screen.
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1.on ibook start the x11 app
2.open a term window & telnet/ssh into the g4
3.export DISPLAY=192.168.0.4:0.0 192x is your ibook ip
4.xeyes&
the xeyes output should show up automagically on your
ibook
google for step 2 for accuracy
You might have to modify the path to include /usr/X11R6/bin -- use the 'set env' to do that. You might want to have a valid .xinitrc in your home directory, as well. And then type 'exec startx'.
From my experience, if you enter 'startx' when you end the session you will get the windmill of death. If you end 'exec startx' it exits elegantly to the Aqua login screen. But I have to putz with the .xinitrc file to see if I can exit back to the standard command-prompt screen.