>>ah that's it, So i can't amend the default >>path in x11?
Jule -
There's no such thing as an path in X11 --
in Unix, there's a path associated with the shell that you use, which the Applications menu of
X11 also uses. So once you set the right path
in your shell, everything will fall into place.
The reason the fink packages aren't being found is that fink very wisely isolates all its files into a non-standard location (/sw). So if you want to be able to access the fink files, you have to include the initialization script that they provide in the .cshrc file in your home directory.
Simply add this line to your .cshrc file:
source /sw/bin/init.csh
and all the fink packages will become accesible.
If you don't have a .cshrc file, create one and put that line in it.