Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
- Subject: Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
- From: Hans Kruse <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:37:01 -0500
It might help if you posted some information on how the programs "fail to run". Are they not starting the X server?
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On Nov 18, 2011, at 20:59, Ken Springer <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, Daniel,
>
> On 11/18/11 5:19 PM, Daniel . wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It never occurred to me to test a new account. So, I created another administrator account, but the results were the same.
>
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