In your case you'd most likely run Apple's X11 (frequently in /Applications/Utilities), which is a particular variant of Xwindows.
The reason that xv can't run by itself is that it wants to display its information on an Xwindows display. This really isn't too different from Mac or Windows apps that require their respective graphic displays to function.
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On Jan 24, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Ari A. Lamstein wrote:
OK, I got it to work. Can you tell me what X is, though? Why can't this
application run by itself?
---- Ari Lamstein http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lamstein
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
You need to start X first.
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Ari A. Lamstein wrote:
I just installed xv via fink, but get the error "xv: Can't open display"
when I type "xv" at the command line. Anyone know what's wrong?
Thanks.
---- Ari Lamstein http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lamstein
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