Re: make a drag-and-drop XEmacs application?
Re: make a drag-and-drop XEmacs application?
- Subject: Re: make a drag-and-drop XEmacs application?
- From: robert delius royar <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:34:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: An Apple OS X end user
- Priority: NEW
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 (11:53 -0700 UTC) Rich Cook wrote:
On Jul 13, 2004, at 7:53 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
On 13 juil. 2004, at 16:20, Eric Dahlman wrote:
On Jul 12, 2004, at 9:46 AM, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
It would be nice if Apple honoured the claim they make on their X11 page,
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/ :
"Double-click apps Launch X11 applications directly in the
Finder."
This works fine for me. I just tried it with oclock and it started up X11
and off it went. Could it be that you were trying to click on a shell
script or some other program that then later starts the x11 app. In that
case there is no way for finder to know that an x application is starting,
it can only look at the app that it is launching itself.
The problem with xemacs is that usually the file named "xemacs" is a
symlink to the real executable which has a name like xemacs-21.5.9.
Unfortunately, Apple's automatic X11 recognition works neither for symlinks
nor for executables that have a name with dots in it and no standard
extension. If you rename "xemacs-21.5.9" to something like "xemacs2159",
then the Finder will recognize it as an X11 application and open it on
double-click.
Not so. I just double clicked on a symlink to xmgrace and it fired up just
fine. I wonder what the mechanism for this is...
Find the executable that isn't recognized as one (in my case
xemacs-21.5-b1), get the context menu for the file, select "Open with," and
attach /Applications/Utilities/Launcher.app to the file. Then it will open
as an X executable instead of as a console program.
--
Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky
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