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Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications



+ Sebastian Hahn <email@hidden>:

> On Feb 29, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>
> > Makes me wonder if your teTeX installation has messed with
> > /etc/profile in a bad way?  The default /etc/profile contains
> >
> > if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
> >        eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
> > fi
> [...]
> Yes, it's quite different! It contains:
>
> # System-wide .profile for sh(1)
>
> PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin"
> export PATH

So replace the above two lines by

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
        eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

ensure you have (the semicolon is my shell prompt):

; cat /etc/paths
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
; cat /etc/paths.d/X11
/usr/X11/bin

and I expect things to be better.

> X11 used to work after I installed Tiger, but maybe it's
> incompatible with Leopard?

Not at all.  We are many people here on the list happily running X11
on Leopard.  Well, the amount of happiness may vary, but still ...
You did mention you have installed the latest X11 package from
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz, right?  So you have this:

; pkgutil --pkg-info org.x.X11.pkg
package-id: org.x.X11.pkg
version: 2.1.4
volume: /
location: ./
install-time: <whatever>

Note that if you have upgraded to 10.5.2 after installing this
package, you will have to reinstall it.

- Harald
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 >Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications (From: Sebastian Hahn <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications (From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications (From: Sebastian Hahn <email@hidden>)



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