Re: XQuartz fails to open
Re: XQuartz fails to open
- Subject: Re: XQuartz fails to open
- From: William Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:13:05 -0400
On Aug 21, 2008, at 8:39 PM, M Gagnon wrote:
Hi,
I'm Auria, the current maintainer of the Wilber-Loves-Apple project
(we do mac packages of GIMP). I'm posting here on the behalf of a
user who posted on our forums. You can view the full thread here : http://gimper.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2401
In short, the user is unable to open GIMP because XQuartz complains
that "xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 0.0". Since I have little
idea what this is all about, I am forwarding this to you in hope
someone here will know more.
Is he using Leopard? If so the problem is that somewhere in his
startup files (~.profile, ~.bash.rc, .xinit, etc) is a line defining
DISPLAY=0.0
In Leopard DISPLAY is assigned a value by the system (it will look
something like DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-2wHaV3/:0)
He can check the current value of DISPLAY by typing env in an Apple
terminal window. If this is his problem just remove the offending
DISPLAY definition and restart.
William Davis
frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
Mac OS X.5.4 Darwin 9.4.0
XQuartz 2.3.0 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple5)
Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz
Mundus vult decepi, ego non
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
X11-users mailing list (email@hidden)
This email sent to email@hidden