Newbie: XQuartz installation for FontForge questions
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Here’s the background:
I’m running Yosemite 10.10.5 on a Macbook Pro (late 2013)
I see that I currently have
/opt/X11/
/usr/X11R6/
/usr/X11 (a symlink to /opt/X11)
/usr/X11R6/bin is on my PATH, so
$ which xterm
returns /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
Question 1: Is there anything wrong with this current setup? (I suspect that
there might be.)
******** FontForge *********
I want to run FontForge on OS X, and there’s a webpage
fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/mac/
with installation instructions for OS X. They tell me that I need to download
the X11/XQuartz app
(2.7.7) and install it in /Applications/Utilities/
So I did it. If I open /Applications/Utilities in the finder, I now see X11
But (mysteriously) if I
$ cd /Applications/Utilities
$ ls
I see XQuartz.app (rather than X11 or X11.app).
Question 2: What’s going on here?
*********** Trying to change Preferences in XQuartz ******
The FontForge instructions tell me to launch
/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app,
open the Preferences, and change one value.
However, when I launch /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app,
it seems to launch but then come and go. The icon appears and disappears in
the doc.
And in the listing of applications in Force Quit, it also appears and
disappears.
Question 3: What’s going on here?
*********** Finally *************
Question 4: What do I need to do to clean things up regarding X11/XQuartz and
get FontForge running
on my Mac?
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Thanking you in anticipation,
Ken
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Kenneth R. Beesley, D.Phil.
PO Box 540475
North Salt Lake UT 84054
USA
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