[...] I wanted to try INKSCAPE.........and downloaded it only to
get a dialogue saying I needed X11; which I downloaded, installed,
checked to be sure both were installed; initially, a Dos like
window came up with my admin user name in the main command line. I
do not have great familiarity with terminal, etc. So I had no idea
what i was supposed to do, and closed it.
It's xterm. It's OK to close it if you don't need it.
I have subsequently read on X11 but none of it is particularly
enlightening to me; I began reading in the forum, after doing a
search on Inkscape and X11 but only located a couple entries that
did not enlighten me since the reply indicated one simply had to
launch Inkscape and that was it; this apparently is not true in my
case; when I double click on Inkscape to open it, X11 opens, and it
is X11's menu that is available to me; under Applications, I have
three choices and "customize" but I am not sure what "customize"
means n this case.
No need to customize anything to use Inkscape. Maybe you're running
Leopard, because with Tiger I have no problems with Inkscape, which I
just double-click and it launches X11.
For the knowledgeable people in this list to be able to help you,
open Console (in /Applications/Utilities), launch Inkscape and copy
what Console says when Inkscape is trying to launch.
For example, I copy below the relevant part; despite the errors
shown, Inkscape launches fine and I can open SVG graphics.
Best,
Axel
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XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1920x1200 @ (0,0)
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
removing from list!
bash: no job control in this shell
grep: write error: Bad file descriptor
(inkscape-bin:319): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Unable to find: FullScreen
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