Re: re-installing 2.6.3, and slow OpenGL rendering
Re: re-installing 2.6.3, and slow OpenGL rendering
- Subject: Re: re-installing 2.6.3, and slow OpenGL rendering
- From: Stephen Langer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:33:06 -0400
On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> Install 2.6.3 first, then run launchctl load ...
I did that, but it didn't work. I thought that maybe I should have used sudo, so I tried it. Now DISPLAY contains org.macosforge.xquartz, but X clients can't connect. It looks like the permissions are wrong on the /tmp/launch-XXXXX directory. Clearly I don't understand something about launchctl.
> Give 2.7.0_beta1 a try.
I will.
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> Also, you can manually launch the application from /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app even if it's not the default server (same for X11.app if XQuartz is default).
Do I have to manually set DISPLAY in that case
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> On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:00, Stephen Langer wrote:
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>> Hi --
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>> I've apparently done something silly when switching between XQuartz 2.6.3 and Apple's X11.app. I was trying to find out if a program that was misbehaving on one computer but not on another was doing so because the computers were running different X servers. I uninstalled XQuartz 2.6.3 by following the instructions at http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X11-UsersFAQ -- running "launchctl unload ..." and logging out and back in.
>> That worked, and let me test the program with Apple's X11.app. Then I tried to re-install XQuartz by running "launchctl load ...", but that didn't work, and neither did re-running the XQuartz 2.6.3 installer. Even after logging out and back in, I'm still getting Apple's X11.app. What am I doing wrong?
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>> This is on a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8.
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>> The problem that I was investigating by switching X servers is that a program that uses vtk and OpenGL graphics displays very slowly when using XQuartz 2.6.3, but works properly with X11.app. When it's running slowly the whole computer is unresponsive and Activity Monitor shows no CPU use, so I assume that it's the graphics card that's slow. Operations that should be nearly instantaneous take 10-20 seconds. The problem does *not* occur on any other systems (including a Linux VM running on the MacBook) or with Apple's X11.app, so it appears to be due to XQuartz. I'd file a bug report, but at the moment I can't reproduce the problem since I can't switch back to XQuartz!
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>> Thanks,
>> Steve
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