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X11 in Leopard

I'm not sure if anyone is having this problem, but I cannot open the Gimp and Inkscape anymore after upgrading to Leopard. Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5), HOLY CRAP I HAVE LEOPARD!!!!!

Posted on Oct 26, 2007 9:45 AM

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Oct 27, 2007 4:44 AM in response to Ambv

Workaround for now:
1. Open Finder.
2. Press Command ShiftG, enter /usr
3. Find a folder named X11, go inside.
4. There's an X11 icon there, run it.

Now applications needing X11 will work. Downsides:
- this does not happen automatically
- there are actually two X11 icons in the Dock (?) after running this executable

Oct 27, 2007 9:53 AM in response to Mac-oholic

I don't know if this will help anyone find an answer, but when I dig into the Inkscape app and try to launch it from here:
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape

. . .This is the message I get in Terminal:


Macintosh:~ Brogdon$ /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape ; exit;
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script: line 17: open-x11: command not found
Unable to find application named 'XDarwin'

(inkscape-bin:512): Gtk-WARNING: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Unable to find: FullScreen

(inkscape-bin:512): WARNING : Unknown verb name: FullScreen
Unable to find: FullScreen
cairo-ft-font.c:688: failed assertion `error == 0'

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.

Message was edited by: Mac-oholic

Oct 27, 2007 6:45 PM in response to Mac-oholic

Can anyone get the Leopard X11 to work in 256 color mode? I tried this in a shop and found that all windows were rendered as blank white boxes. With careful typing I could connect to a remote computer but all windows were plain white. Not very helpful... I need this to access a remote program which only runs in 256 colors on an SGI computer.

I'd been waiting for Leopard to get a couple of new machines for my lab, now I'll have to rush this to make sure that I still get Tiger.

Phil.

Oct 27, 2007 11:26 PM in response to Mac-oholic

Mac-oholic wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone is having this problem, but I cannot open the Gimp and Inkscape anymore after upgrading to Leopard. Any suggestions?


Where did you get the copies of Gimp and Inkscape? If you're running Gimp.app, try upgrading to the latest version from gimp.org (2.4rc3 at the time of this writing).

If you installed them using MacPorts or Fink, upgrade them to the latest version; they should then work.

Ben

Oct 28, 2007 7:44 AM in response to bbyer

Hello, bbyer. Good to see an X11.app maintainter here. I cannot say for the others, but in my case the problem is not with applications using X11 but with X11 itself.
Let me explain that in more detail.
After upgrading to Leopard from Tiger, X11 stopped working. Yes, applications could not find X11 anymore and that's application related. But, when I tried to run /Applications/Utilities/X11.app, it would not start. After double clicking no icon in the Dock appeared.
I could not recall whether the Leopard installer upgraded X11 so I just reinstalled it from Optional Installs from the Leopard DVD. But nothing changed, starting X11 would not cause the X11 icon to appear in the Dock. 'ps axu' from the Terminal does not show any X11.app related executable to be running. There are no related messages in the Console.
So I figured, let's find X11 and clean it up, and install it again. I removed /usr/ X11 and /Applications/Utilities/X11.app and tried again from the DVD. Same result. Then I tried to run /usr/X11/X11.app directly. And it does start up, and Gimp and other applications do work but there are two icons in the Dock instead of one and one of them is constantly bouncing. The other is working and has the Programs menu.
What can I do to make X11 work properly?

Oct 28, 2007 9:00 AM in response to Bill Scott

OK, got it. Now I have a better understanding of what's going on under the hood and I've fixed my environment variables so now X11.app behaves correctly. However, there are still two problems. The smaller one is the known Dock incompatibility (getting two icons instead of one), the bigger however is:

When I open an X11 application, it LOSES FOCUS after exactly 2 seconds. When I click the window so it regains focus, it loses it again after exactly 2 seconds. What's up with that?

Oct 28, 2007 9:28 AM in response to Ambv

I pre-ordered OS 10.5 so I haven't seen it yet. Maybe it will arrive before the end of October. So unfortunately I can't advise you on this.

One thing you could do is invoke the nuclear option: Ditch Apple's X11 and install what comes with fink.

I don't know why Apple doesn't simply make the Xserver part of OS X and make this seamless.

Oct 28, 2007 10:26 AM in response to bbyer

bbyer wrote:
Mac-oholic wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone is having this problem, but I cannot open the Gimp and Inkscape anymore after upgrading to Leopard. Any suggestions?


Where did you get the copies of Gimp and Inkscape? If you're running Gimp.app, try upgrading to the latest version from gimp.org (2.4rc3 at the time of this writing).

If you installed them using MacPorts or Fink, upgrade them to the latest version; they should then work.

Ben



Hey Ben!

I downloaded the newest versions of both apps THey will now work. Inkscape came out with a newer version on Friday. Unfortunately, Inkscape text is not recognized. All the text is replaced with blank boxes. Any suggestions?


Thanks again!

Jonathan

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