Apple X11 and Gimp

[richardjpratt]

Hello again everyone,

A quick aside?I want to thank everyone again for past help (especially Sao)?you have all gone above and beyond.

I have a question for anybody that is experimenting with Apple's X11. I have uninstalled XDarwin using Fink (no problem) installed Apple's X11, added the systemfree86 (proabably misnamed but I think you know what I mean) to Fink.

1) Now I want to try running Gimp or Open Office, do I need to install a another window manager (Gnome, KDE) to run these, or can I use Apples?

2) If I can just use Apple's wont Fink automatically correct the dependencies and load Gnome etc. anyway? I tend to use dselect but I am now playing with FinkCommander.

3) Finally I am guessing that the answer is that I'm going to have to compile some code (which I've never knowingly done) is there a reference on the web were I can read about the process of compiling code?

Thanks if you can answer any or all of these?I'm reading the other threads too, so some of these questions might be answered there.

Richard

[sao]

Hi Richard,

You can use Apple wm.

Somewhere in this thread, you will find some answers:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8327


Cheers...

PS: You do have Gimp installed, right?

[richardjpratt]

Sao,

I had it installed at one point but I decided to uninstall alot of prgrams before adding Apple's X11.... so I'll be going to Fink to reinstall Gimp

Thanks,

PS Can you tell me what files xterm will look at when starting up? My Terminal app starts fine with this in my .cshrc

if (! $?DISPLAY) then
setenv DISPLAY :0.0
endif

source /usr/share/tcsh/examples/rc
source /sw/bin/init.csh

but xterm gives me this message in X11

TERM_PROGRAM: Undefined variable.

when it starts up. Not a big deal because it seems to work fine but the perfectionist inside me would like to correct the error.

Thanks again, Richard

[richardjpratt]

Ok, I just read another of your messages and started xterm from the terminal....No more error!

Richard

[sao]

Richard,

"TERM_PROGRAM: Undefined variable"

Check the following:

http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20020826003806202&title=TERM_PROGRAM%3A+Undefined+variable%3F&type=article&order=&pid=10514

Cheers...

[richardjpratt]

That did it and it fixed a couple of other problems I was having....Thanks! and Thanks!

I have Gimp and AbiWord working now so all is right with the world (or at least my computer, knock on wood!)

Richard

[mnewman]

When I start Gimp from xterm I get the following error message:

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

But, Gimp seems to work OK. What does the error mean and how do I get rid of it?

TIA

[sao]

mnewman,

These messages are harmless. It just means what it says internationalization is not supported through the standard C library, the program will use the default English messages, date formats, and so on.

If you want to get rid of the messages you can do it by unsetting the environment variable LANG. Note that this will also turn internationalization off in programs that actually support it (via gettext/libintl).

Write in your ~/.xinitrc:

unset LANG

or write in your ~/.cshrc:

unsetenv LANG


Cheers...