Doing “sudo port deactivate active” would deactivate ALL my active ports, would it not? And given that I have scores active, it would be brutal to reactivate all of them,
I had originally installed inkscape with +quartz, which didn’t work. Then after uninstalling that I installed inkscape +x11, which also didn’t work! I don’t understand syntax & semantics of: sudo port -f deactivate rdepof:inkscape and active (I don’t find any mention of “rdepof” at guide.macports.org <http://guide.macports.org/>, and I need to be sure that the “and active” there really applies only to whatever it is that would match "rdepof:inkscape”. I note the output from sudo port installed | grep quartz is: cairo @1.14.8_0+quartz+x11 (active) pango @1.40.3_1+quartz+x11 (active) tk @8.6.6_0+quartz (active) And I have a huge number of ports that depend on cairo. So still question is what to do. > On Jan 7, 2017, at 4:48 PM, David Evans <dev...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 1/7/17 10:31 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> I have latest (2..7.11) XQuartz installed under macOS Sierra (10.12.2). I >> installed inkscape+quartz and insckape-app. >> When I either run inkscape from Terminal command line or from inkscape.app >> created by the latter, I see the XQiartz icon >> repeatedly appear and bounce in my Dock and then disappear. But I never see >> an Inkscape window. >> >> How to fix? > > If the XQuartz server is being activated, that indicates that your program is > issuing X11 protocol requests. Thus, it > appears that you have not been successful in rebuilding all the necessary > dependencies with +quartz instead of +x11. > > Although I have been criticized for suggesting such a brute force approach, > the most fool proof way I know of doing > this this transition successfully is the following: > > sudo port deactivate active > sudo port install inkscape +quartz > > or perhaps less clumsily > > sudo port -f deactivate rdepof:inkscape and active > sudo port install inkscape +quartz > > This is how I switch from one to the other for testing. > > Note that a potential problem in trying to switch from +x11 to +quartz on a > port by port basis is that you may now be > mixing installed ports that require +x11 and others that require +quartz that > may have common dependencies that can only > be installed one way or the other. > > Depending on what ports you often use, you may have to decide on whether you > want a +quartz only installation or an +x11 > one. > > Dave > --- Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com 503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240 Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
