Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
- Subject: Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
- From: "Daniel ." <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:19:38 -0500
As a volunteer for a non-profit organization, I often times am called on to help with technical support for the org's X-client. On several occasions we have had people say that the software wouldn't activate either Apple's X11 or XQuartz.
In these incidents I have always advised those folks to make a new user and test the app from there. To my amazement not one person is willing to do this, not even as a test. Of the perhaps roughly three thousand Mac users the org has, only a handful has this problem. Only one user "fixed" the problem, and that was a clean install of the OS.
-Daniel
On Nov 18, 2011, at 5:20PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> Hi, Daniel,
>
> On 11/16/11 4:40 PM, Daniel . wrote:
>> It seems to me you must have some other issues going on on your Mac
> > (what, I wouldn't venture to say), owing to the fact that I have GIMP installed
>> and running on the last three (intel) Mac OSes using
> > XQuartz and SL and Lion have Apple's X11 side-by-side with XQuartz too.
>
> Your guess/thought apparently is the right answer. Exactly what the problem/issue is, I haven't yet determined.
>
> Not getting any specific instructions on how to remove X11 and XQuartz, I took a different troubleshooting route.
>
> I added a new partition to my internal hard drive, and installed a new copy of Snow Leopard. Then installed Gimp and Inkscape. Both programs ran.
>
> On a parallel observation, the internal drive and partitions displayed on the desktop.
>
> Returned to my original boot partition, I reinstalled all things Snow Leopard, then installed and tried to run Gimp and Inkscape. Neither would run.
>
> That indicates to me, there's a software conflict somewhere, unless some piece of XQuartz is still hanging around somewhere causing the issue.
>
> To be sure Gimp and Inkscape would still run in the new partition, I booted into the partition. And they ran.
>
> *But*.... the internal drive/partitions were no longer displaying on the desktop.
>
> I installed SN to this partition a 2nd time, and still the internal drive/partitions did not display on the desktop. Something changed the Finder's preferences, and I know not what. :-(
>
> Now, I'm just pondering the best way to determine what the conflict is and how to correct it.
>
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
X11-users mailing list (email@hidden)
This email sent to email@hidden