[zanyterp]

hello!! i am sorry to bother everyone, but i am wondering what to do when x11 tells me that the command is not found for an app that i installed through fink? i have run the program successfully once, but now it does not want to work. . .the specific one at the moment is xscrabble. i also have had issues with 3dpong in that it just tells me usage and won't let me play. thanks!!

nick

ps should i install xfree86? or should apple's x11 be fine for these programs?

[suthercd]

A couple of suggestions. One is to precede the application name with /sw/bin. For instance /sw/bin/xeyes. If that works then you need to check your $path to see is /sw/bin is included in it. Type echo $PATH at the prompt in Terminal or an xterm window.

What version of OS X are your using? That will determine what rc (runcom) file needs to be edited if /sw/bin is not in your path. Let us know and we can help fix it.

Craig

[zanyterp]

Originally posted by suthercd:
A couple of suggestions. One is to precede the application name with /sw/bin. For instance /sw/bin/xeyes. If that works then you need to check your $path to see is /sw/bin is included in it. Type echo $PATH at the prompt in Terminal or an xterm window.

What version of OS X are your using? That will determine what rc (runcom) file needs to be edited if /sw/bin is not in your path. Let us know and we can help fix it.

Craig

i've tried, and it worked before. i am running 10.3.1. when i try to run xscrabble, it get:

$ /sw/bin/xscrabble
Couldn't find resource file XScrabble.
Nicholas-Christens-Computer:~ nicholaschristen$

my PATH returns this when i run echo $PATH:

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/nicholaschristen:/usr/X11R6/bin



and i have tried to rewrite my path once before, and it looked like it worked. . .now it doesn't. i have tried re-installing through fink/fink commander and still comes up with the resource file missing notice as stated above. any idea? or could it just be one of those fun things that just exists? i AM able to run xmahjongg, both through typing in /sw/bin/xmahjongg and through the application menu.

thanks!!
nick

ps. . .how do i take screen shots with panther? i have tried what worked in os 9, cuz i thought i had heard it worked the same. guess not though. :-)

[suthercd]

Sceenshots -- shift-cmd-4 will give you a crosshair and allow you to drag to slect the shot area. Shift-command-3 grabs the whole screen.

There may be a package problem on xScrabble. To remove that package and reinstall it look in the help on fink's site. There is a good description there.

Craig