Maybe that did it. When I execute the following command in the OSX
terminal window, I get an X11 application to start with a single
window named Term prefixed with an X icon, and when I type i. 5 in
that single window, I see 0 1 2 3 4. Is that all I should see?

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:29 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, I meant the same thing that you had just tried.
>
> From the error message, I think the gtk initialisation was done.  It being
> a warning rather than error message because gtk had some components that
> do not required a screen (headless).
>
> I googled this page
> http://web3null.blogspot.com/2007/10/running-gtk-applications-in-mac-os-x.html
> which said something about X11.app
>
>  5. run application
>
>    To run your application, you could try it in the Terminal, but if it is
> a x11 app, the output will be
>    "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:". What you have to do is starting
> the X11.app, which is the same as
>    the Terminal but provides the X-Server. It is also possible to start an
> X11 application by "open-x11
>    <application-name>" (see Apple's x11 site)
>
>
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