For the past 3 days I’ve been trying like hell to get X11 working properly on my new 24” iMac with Leopard 10.5.7. I can start the X11 console from the Utilities folder in Applications and run the 3 programs that are listed in the Applications list (Terminal, Xman and Xlogo) but as far as issuing “startx” at the prompt and getting a window manager to come up is just impossible. This Leopard install was pre-installed with all of the latest updates and patches from Apple so there shouldn’t be any problems at all. Yet all I get after typing “startx” at the prompt is a message that says:

font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
font_cache: Updating FC cache
xauth: creating new authority file /Users/Steve/.serverauth.13151

font_cache: Done

waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
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and this will go on and on until it times out. I need some suggestions here to get X11 working properly so please leave a comment if you have something useful that may help.