On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, Ken Cunningham wrote: > 1. Do you have an X11 server installed? Look in /Applications/MacPorts > for it. Mine is called X11.app.
Yep. > 2. Does it run if you double click it? Yep. > 3. If it does run, open an xterm terminal from the "Applications" menu > in the X11.app. (you obviously do need xterm installed for it to open). Hmmm... Nope (and neither does "xlogo" nor "xman" from that menu. > 4. If xterm does open -- try running your xeyes or other x11 > applications from the xterm terminal. That often works even when the > Terminal application won't open them. Looks like X11 is well and truly nobbled (but as I said it used to work). > NB having two different X11 infrastructures installed, eg MacPorts X11 > and another one like XQuartz or Apple's X11 infrastructure, is just a > recipe for disaster. Many folks have solved their X11 headaches by > stripping out everything except the one they want (usually the MacPorts > one is the one you want). Agreed; is there a way to get things to build with XQuartz, or will that "just work" if I blow away X11 without dragging it in? -- Dave
