08-05-2001
XWindows on Mac OSX
Hello, I'm like most people who post here, I'm new in UNIX. Yesterday I installed Xwindows on my OSX box just to learn as much about UNIX as I can. I been messing around with my terminal and conf files that have to do with Apache and sendmail and didn't mess anything up so I thought I was ready to get more on the side of unix. I have a toturial that came in last month's issure of Mac Addict along with the files needed on a disk, but they didn't tell how to use it.
What I get when I log into Xwindows are three terminals; one that says login and two that say, well I can't remember right now. I was expecting it to look a little like the SUN system we have at work; a little like gnome. Or at least have icons and GUI windows and menus.
On a page closer the front, they have a review of an OSX verison of GIMP called Xtools, they have a box on the bottom left corner of that page that talkes a little about X Windows. I assumed that is what forms the windows, icons, and menus. So I went back and installed a file called Xnest, it says this is "a nested X Window server". When I rebooted Xwindows after installing this, nothing changed.
Is there a command that I need to enter, did I do something wrong, is there a file I need to install, or am I just missing something?
Thanks for your help
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lsmsad(8) System Manager's Manual lsmsad(8)
NAME
lsmsad - Starts the Storage Administrator (SA) daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/lsmsad
DESCRIPTION
The SA daemon, lsmsad, is a process required by lsmsa, the SA graphical user interface (GUI). The daemon issues commands and obtains system
information on behalf of SA.
The SA daemon runs on a Tru64 UNIX system on which LSM is initialized and running. The SA client runs on any machine that supports the
Java Runtime Environment.
The SA daemon is automatically started at boot time. Under normal conditions, the daemon does not need to be run manually.
If SA does not start during the boot process, enter:
/sbin/init.d/lsmsa stop
To restart SA, enter:
/sbin/init.d/lsmsa start
Only one SA daemon can be running on a system at a given time. If a second SA daemon attempts to start, it will fail.
RESTRICTIONS
You must be root user to run lsmsad.
FILES
The script that starts lsmsad at boot time. The command log file that tracks SA tasks. The access log file that tracks login to SA. The
server log file that tracks server startup information and server errors. The log maintenance shell script that saves and compresses log
files.
SEE ALSO
lsmsa(8), volintro(8)
lsmsad(8)