Talk:X11

• I have mac and i am having trouble connecting to the Latex program to do my lab. I loaded the program X11 from my OSX disk and when i open it the screen reads: bash-3.2$, and when i try and type in the code shown on the website: "xhost +

  ssh -XY jcg24@ComputerName.oit.duke.edu" it says that xhost is not a valid command. Did I miss a step and/or what do i need to do in order to contact the Latex clusters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcg28 (talk • contribs)

  • I personally have only used the terminal on windows 10.4; the bash thing seems a bit odd though. Are you on 10.4 or 10.5? DukeEgr93 22:35, 26 August 2008 (EDT)

• I also have a mac and I am using X11 to try and open up latex so I can edit my document, but I keep getting an error message that says "File /afs/acpub.duke.edu/users/1st letter/2nd letter/UserID/lab1.dvi does not exist" after I enter in "ls lab1" and then "kdvi lab1.dvi &" into X11. What and in what order do I need to type characters in order to open up Latex? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pdavy324 (talk • contribs)
  • You need to be in your lab1 directory, which is inside the EGR53 directory. Once you log in, be sure to type

cd EGR53
cd lab1

then you can run emacs, LaTeX, or kdvi no the file. DukeEgr93 15:41, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

• Mine goes through all the emacs process, but then when I try to modify the content on emacs, it simply doesn't type english - it only types rectangular shapes that absolutely make no sense, and the language shift doesn't work.. i am unable to modify the content on emacs because it only projects white rectangles on the emacs screen. How can I solve the problem? Jy84 11:35, 27 August 2009 (EDT)
  • I've...I've never seen that before. Do you have some kind of language pack installed on your computer? Is this happening when running on your computer, or always? DukeEgr93 19:04, 27 August 2009 (EDT)

• When I try to open the dvi file, I keep getting this error message "Could not open file /afs/acpub.duke.edu/users/k/s/ksr15/EGR53/lab1/lab1.dvi which has type application/x-zerosize. KDVI can only load DVI (.dvi) files." I can open the emacs though. What is wrong?Ksr15 17:28, 1 September 2009 (EDT)
  • So - that isn't actually an X11R6 issue - it's a LaTeX issue. If the latex lab1.tex part does not complete, the lab1.dvi part will be empty; fix the .tex - fix the world. DukeEgr93 19:37, 1 September 2009 (EDT)

• Every time i log into a computer at teer or hudson it tells me 'error in locking authority file /afs/acpub/users/r/w/rww3/.Xauthority' and i can't open matlab anymore because of this. How can i open matlab? Rww3 15:52, 16 September 2009 (EDT)
  • See the PuTTY#Xauthority_file_locking info. DukeEgr93 00:43, 17 September 2009 (EDT)