Hiya,
Running the shell command
open -a X11 || open -a XDarwin
Will get X11 started for the majority of users (who have it
installed, of course).
Documentation of the open command: http://www.hmug.org/man/1/open.php
There's also an open-x11 shell command that will start Apple's X11,
but not people using XDarwin (which is generally users of < 10.2, if
I remember correctly). I'm not sure how exactly it behaves if Apple
X11 isn't installed.
Of course, you want to have some fallback mechanism if this fails (to
tell your users something went wrong). Gimp.app installs some custom
Carbon event handlers to accomplish this, somehow (see http://gimp-
app.sf.net/ ).
Dave
On 22-May-06, at 2:43 AM, Arjan Molenaar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm maintainer of Gaphor <http://gaphor.sourceforge.net>, a UML
> modeling tool written in Python.
>
> Recently I'm trying to build a Mac App for this application. This
> seems to work for a great deal using py2app (thanks Bob).
>
> However, I have a few questions:
>
> * Does anyone have experience with packaging GTK+ applications
> this way?
>
> * GTK+ requires X11. How can I start X11? What's the best way to
> launch
> Gaphor inside X11?
>
> * Gaphor generates some files from its setup.py. What's the best
> way to add
> those to the application package?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Arjan Molenaar
>
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