At 5:55 PM -0700 9/4/02, John Gnaegy wrote: >I can launch Gimp from a X11 terminal window and it launches fine, >but doing the same thing from MacOS X's Terminal app doesn't work, >giving an error like "can't connect to window environment" (I'm >rebuilding Gimp right now so I can't try it again and paste the >exact wording). > >Can this be fixed by adding a path somewhere, or is it an intrinsic >limitation of XDarwin that you can only launch X11 apps from an X11 >terminal window? > >I'm not expecting XDarwin to be launched automatically if an X11 app >needs it, that's too much to ask, but mainly I'm wondering what's >the difference between the X11 terminal and what it knows about, and >MacOS X's Terminal and what it knows about.
welcome to the Fink Beginners list... don't get frustrated. Aqua is a window server for Cocoa, Carbon, and Classic... but not Darwin. Darwin churns away underneath with no access to graphic windows: terminal-only. How does UNIX serve graphic windows on other implementations? by running an X-Window Server... X11. Apparently some enterprising imaginative desperate people (XonX) discovered that an open-source XFree86 project that intended to port X11 to Intel X86 chips had accidentally become portable (hardware-independent) - notice it's XFree86 - so they compiled it on Darwin-PPC instead of 386-486-Pentium-+ and it worked. Now it's a duality... X on X... Darwin serving X11 and Aqua at the same time. Knock out the background of X11 and now it's transparent. Then other people jumped on the bandwagon and it hit critical-mass: * Fink, to give us Debian-type packages to take compiling out of our hands. * OroborOSX, to hack the X11 bootstrap and marry it to Aqua so it interleaves. XonX (XFree86) with Fink(Commander) with OroborOSX is the winning bandwagon. Of course there are Also-Ran LOSERS: * XTools by Xenon... who greedily horde their hardware-accelerated OpenGL code while their outdated snapshot of the open-source XFree86 gets older and older. * GNU/Darwin... morons who want to reduce Darwin to Linux... they'll dump Aqua! * the extremely slow-motion VNC people... you can flip pages faster -- lenny bruce I am not a comedian, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am Lenny Bruce. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
