Re: Bug in X11 updater
Re: Bug in X11 updater
- Subject: Re: Bug in X11 updater
- From: "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:54:26 -0800
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Bug in X11 updater
Thanks. It seems to be working now and I have no idea what changed, but I suspect network access issues.
On Oct 31, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> The updater is provided by a framework called Sparkle. If the menu option is greyed out, that usually means that it is either checking or downloading the update. If it is *always* greyed out, then you should make sure that your firewall lets you access this URL:
>
> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/sparkle/release.xml
>
> On Oct 31, 2011, at 09:57, Cook, Rich wrote:
>
>> For some reason, "Check for X11 Updates" is always greyed out. I thought at first it's because of our firewalls; sometimes X11 cannot connect to the Internet. But it happens at home too. It only checks for updates when it exits, which usually happens when I'm shutting my computer down -- I don't want to be interrupted then.
>> Am I doing something wrong? I'd rather see it check for updates at startup or better yet, when I want to check.
>> Thanks
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