On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Alejandro Imass <aim...@yabarana.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Katrin Schweitzer < > katrin.schweit...@ims.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > >> Dear list, >> I just recently started using Dia on Mac OSX 10.11.3 and it seemed to >> work fine. >> >> However, suddenly it won't start any more. >> >> The problem started, when I minimized Dia and couldn't get the windows >> back. >> > > You get the window back through the XQuartz menu, not through OS X icons. > In other words, all X11 apps run inside the XQuartz container so to speak, > so even though the OS as such sees the process, then native OS X Windowing > system only knows about XQuartz. > > >> I force-quit it and trie to restart. Then, I received an error message >> that seems to be typical with many Mac applications "The application >> Dia.app is not open anymore" and that supposedly is fixed by a reboot. >> After rebooting, Dia won't start either. >> >> When I try to open the application now, xterm launches. Nothing else >> happens. >> >> Can anyone kindly point me to what to do (or where to research further)? >> >> > 1. Locate Dia.app (usually in /Applications) > 2. Show contents (or use a terminal shell to cd to the directory in the > following step) > 3. cd to Dia.app/Contents/Resources/bin > 4. Edit the file dia > 5. After line 39 add the line export DISPLAY=:0 > 6. Save the file and exit > 7. Close XQuartz if it's running > 8. Start DIA again and it should start, if not restart computer and should > work > > > If it doesn't work, please post the modified dia shell script here. > > > Best, > Alex > Also make sure you have the latest version from Sourceforge, not the older binary that came directly from dia-installer. The new dia-installer page should redirect to the SF download site. But you still need to edit the file as described.
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