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Re: CURSOR problems [message #45296 is a reply to message #45201]

Tue, 23 August 2005 05:39

Patrick Broos
Messages: 27
Registered: December 1996

Junior Member

I don't have any ideas on your xterm configuration, but as a Solaris
user just moving to OS-X I do have a suggestion about xterms: leave
them behind! As long as $DISPLAY is set correctly you can start X11
programs from a shell running in any terminal application.
Terminal.app (from Apple) is better than xterm, and iTerm is even
better than Terminal.app. You'll be able to use much better fonts than
I could ever get in xterm (on OS-X), multiple ("tabbed") shells, full
integration with other OS-X applications (e.g. drag a file from Finder
and the file's path is printed in the shell), standard OS-X keyboard
shortcuts, configurable menus (e.g. to ssh to favorite other machines),
middle mouse paste, focus-follows-mouse, etc. Here's some code I found
to put in .cshrc to set $DISPLAY in all shells:

# Set DISPLAY so that Carbon terminals can run X
applications.
# This only works if an X server is running; it's a
good idea to start
# an X server at login via System
Preferences->Accounts->Login Items.
# Figure the correct value for DISPLAY from the lock
files /tmp/.X?-lock
if ($?DISPLAY == 0) then
foreach x (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 )
if ( -o /tmp/.X$x-lock ) then
setenv DISPLAY :${x}.0
break
endif
end
endif

I choose to start the X11 server automatically at login.

Patrick Broos

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		Cursor problems, MAC and PC By: Ted Cary on Thu, 09 May 2002 08:03
		Re: CURSOR problems By: David Fanning on Mon, 22 August 2005 18:24
		Re: CURSOR problems By: Ken Mankoff on Mon, 22 August 2005 18:01
		Re: CURSOR problems By: K. Bowman on Tue, 23 August 2005 07:09
		Re: CURSOR problems By: Ken Mankoff on Mon, 22 August 2005 17:00
		Re: CURSOR problems By: David Fanning on Mon, 22 August 2005 18:25
		Re: CURSOR problems By: Richard French on Mon, 22 August 2005 17:04
		Re: CURSOR problems By: Patrick Broos on Tue, 23 August 2005 05:39
		Re: CURSOR problems By: K. Bowman on Mon, 22 August 2005 14:55
		Re: CURSOR problems By: David Fanning on Mon, 22 August 2005 14:03
		Re: CURSOR problems By: Ken Mankoff on Mon, 22 August 2005 13:47
		Re: CURSOR problems By: K. Bowman on Mon, 22 August 2005 12:50
		Re: CURSOR problems By: Timm Weitkamp on Mon, 22 August 2005 10:00
		Re: CURSOR problems By: David Fanning on Mon, 22 August 2005 09:58
		Re: CURSOR problems By: R.G. Stockwell on Mon, 22 August 2005 09:30

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