Re: ion on mac os x tiger

Quentin,

I'm running ion on a powerbook g4 with Mac OS X 10.4
and using the XDarwin installed via the xorg packages in
Fink. I used to use the X11.app that Apple supplies, but I
found it a bit unstable. In either case, you start the X server
by starting the .app application, not by running some
command directly. You can always put the app in your
autostart list.

You may have some trouble with the keyboard - both
X servers provide options for setting the keyboard map
and you might also have add to some stuff to your
~/.Xmodmap. I can post mine if it will help, but be warned
that I don't think either X server actually implements the
keyboard mappings correctly - I haven't been able to get
it to work exactly as I want even after lots of messing
around with xev, .Xmodmap etc.

Anyway, this is my ~/.xinit (or at least the relevant parts of it).

Hope it's useful

Samer.


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usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap

# don't forget system/user resources..

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
     echo Installing user modmap from $usermodmap
     xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# set X11 font paths
xset fp+ ~/Library/Fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3
xset fp+ /sw/lib/X11/fonts/misc
xset fp rehash

# this might cause font problems depending on which X server you use
export LANG='en_GB.UTF-8'

# Fink set-up
source /sw/bin/init.sh

# start the window manager
ion3 &
xsetroot -solid black
exec gkrellm
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On 4 Jun 2007, at 20:00, Quentin Huys wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I've so far run ion on ubuntu and come to love it -- so much I  
> absolutely need it on my new workstation, which for random reasons  
> had to be a mac.
>
> All compiles happily, but I then don't know how to get things  
> started. I'd really appreciate any help a lot... Thanks. So:
>
> I first tried to log into console, run x11 (xinit) from there and  
> then run ion on it, but it generates errors, and then leaves me  
> with a blue screen that is utterly unresponsive to anything,  
> incluing ctrl-alt-backspace etc.
>
> So I tried the following, while running the standard mac os x  
> window manager:
>
> First start an x server on display 1 by doing
>
>       xinit -- :1
>
> And then run ion on that display:
>
>      ion -display :1
>
> But that won't work, and it comes up with all kinds of errors:
>
> q-computer:~% xinit -- :1 &
> [1] 427
>
> q-computer:~%
> XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> [DRI] screen 0 installation complete
> Screen 0 added: 1920x1200 @ (0,0)
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,  
> removing from list!
>
> q-computer:~%
> q-computer:~% ion -display :1
> >> Failed to load module de: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/ion/de.so, 9):  
> Symbol not found: _grbrush_get_slave
>      Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ion/de.so
>      Expected in: flat namespace
>
> >> Stack trace:
>    0 [C]: in 'gr_select_engine'
>    1 /usr/local/etc/ion/draw.lua:6
>      [Skipping unnamed C functions.]
> >> No drawing engines loaded, trying "de".
> >> Failed to load module de: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/ion/de.so, 9):  
> Symbol not found: _grbrush_get_slave
>      Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ion/de.so
>      Expected in: flat namespace
>
> >> Failed to load module query: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/ion/query.so,  
> 9): Symbol not found: _region_inactivated
>      Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ion/query.so
>      Expected in: flat namespace
>
> >> Stack trace:
>    0 [C]: in 'load_module'
>    1 /usr/local/etc/ion/ion.lua:55
>      [Skipping unnamed C functions.]
> >> Failed to load module menu: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/ion/menu.so,  
> 9): Symbol not found: _region_inactivated
>      Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ion/menu.so
>      Expected in: flat namespace
>
> >> Stack trace:
>    0 [C]: in 'load_module'
>    1 /usr/local/etc/ion/ion.lua:56
>      [Skipping unnamed C functions.]
> >> Failed to load module ionws: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/ion/ionws.so,  
> 9): Symbol not found: _genframe_brushes_updated
>      Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ion/ionws.so
>      Expected in: flat namespace
>
> >> Stack trace:
>    0 [C]: in 'load_module'
>    1 /usr/local/etc/ion/ion.lua:57
>      [Skipping unnamed C functions.]
> >> Failed to load module floatws: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/ion/ 
> floatws.so, 9): Symbol not found: _region_do_rescue_clientwins
>      Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ion/floatws.so
>      Expected in: flat namespace
>
> >> Stack trace:
>    0 [C]: in 'load_module'
>    1 /usr/local/etc/ion/ion.lua:58
>      [Skipping unnamed C functions.]
> >> Could not find a complete workspace class. Please load some  
> modules.
> >> Unable to set up any rootwins.
> >> Refusing to start due to encountered errors.
> q-computer:~%
> waiting for X server to shut down Quitting XDarwin...
>
> [1]  + done       xinit -- :1
>
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> Thanks very much -- any help appreciated,
> Q
>