Re: Is Maxima available for OS X?

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:03:33 +0200, Raymond Manzoni wrote:

> In bash I did : export DISPLAY=':0.0'
> followed by : xmaxima

> Works too! (the difference is that, in the background, maxima runs
> in the initial bash window instead of a separate xterm window)

> I prefer the launcher method for xmaxima but this trick will be
> pretty useful for other X11 applications (bash provides much better
> Copy/Paste/Find/... support).

Actually, bash doesn't provide any Copy/Paste support. It's Terminal.app
that does those things. If you run bash in an xterm, you will find that
things are somewhat different there.


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