X11 is not opening after Mac OS X 10.5.7 update.

My problem looked a little different. After updating to 10.5.7 today (as prompted by automatic updates), when I clicked on X11 in the dock, the icon bounced up and down and then stopped. The program did nothing. When I right-clicked on X11 in the dock, it said, "program not responding" so I'd force quit, repeat, reboot, etc. Of note, I did not have the full screen mode activated.

Fortunately, update to X11-2.3.3.2 as per the earlier post completely solved my problem. In fact, for some reason, I was previously unable to get new terminal windows with command-N, I previously had to use the menu bar and select "new terminal" from applications (weird to be forced to use the GUI way while in X11, but that what I did.) Now command-N works.

Thanks!!

This happened to me today. Installed 10.5.7 late Saturday, first used X11 on Monday. It wouldn't start. I could see in the system logs (Console application, select All Messages) that it was trying and retrying. Fixed it, but the problem might be specific to my configuration. I use /bin/ksh rather than bash.

I switched to a Guest account, started the Terminal application, from there started an xterm. X11 started right up. Meaning, it must be a problem with my main account, rather than a system-wide problem.

One of the lines in the log that I'd see in each attempt was:

05/18/09 11:12:36 org.x.startx[11552] -[1]: exec: history=50: not found

My ~/.profile has "set history=50" in it. I commented that out, and X11 started successfully on the next retry.

My guess is, either it's logging me in for X11 with a different shell than it used before, or something is trying to parse .profile (and probably .bash_profile if I had one) and doesn't like my customization. I don't have time to figure out the details now. But, check the logs in Console and see if anything looks unhappy. Put "exec" in the Search Filter to narrow it down, and if it shows anything, check the login profile files in your home directory for something that has that text in it.

hit cmd-opt-a to leave fullscreen
goto the X11 preferences menu
deselect fullscreen

Please file bug reports or mention these problems in the official mailing lists ( http://xquartz.macosforge.org) ... if they're not reported there, it's highly unlikely that we'll ever know about them to come up with a fix.

So PLEASE file a bug report about this with information I can use to reproduce it. Since hearing about this issue in this forum, I've tried 10.5.7 on 3 different systems and NONE of them have had a problem with keyboard mapping.