Thank you, Stuart.
I think this is the problem I have. I found
export DISPLAY=:0.0
in my .profile, and get
/tmp/launch-hqz9r6/:0
when from echo $DISPLAY after I run Inkscape. I delete the ~/.inkscape and
~/.inkscape-etc, and run Inkscape again, and get the same result.
Going to try in a new create user.
Jinzhi.
----- Original Message ----
From: Stuart Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jinzhi Lei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 11:44:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Fail to run Inkscape
Hi --
The Inkscape dmg is independent of Fink and contains all the dependencies that
it needs (I think). So this is an issue better addressed at the Inskape user
message board. I've had the same problem with the same set up (10.5.2, Intel,
0.45.1 and 0.46, X11-2.1.4) and it seems to be an X11 problem. The following
is from a post I made to the Inkscape board a couple of days ago. (0.46 is
actually 0.45 dev and is the new release of Inskape that will be released
within a couple of days.)
"The problem definitely seems to be an X11 issue rather than Inkscape. I set
up a new user and 0.46 runs just fine using Inkscape and X11 from the same
Applications directory, so the problem must be in my normal user settings or
files somewhere. I found the following for anyone having problems with X11
startup at: http://lists.apple.com/archives/X11-users/2007/Nov/msg00498.html
and specifically a short routine to check all the user controlled set up files
(.rc, .profile etc) for incorrect DISPLAY settings:
$ grep DISPLAY ~/.*rc ~/.login ~/.*profile ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
2>/dev/null
$ grep -r DISPLAY /opt/local/etc /sw/etc /etc 2>/dev/null
In my case this came up with the ~/.profile file that included a line :
export DISPLAY=:0.0
and when I ran
"echo $DISPLAY" the result was
:0.0
Apparently this is a bad thing and what causes the problem - a common issue,
and the offending line in ~/.profile should be deleted
Then after running Inkscape you will find that running
"echo $DISPLAY" will produce
/tmp/launch-LGD5sz/:0
or something similar in format."
And that's as it should be.
.............So try the above. Also try deleting (or moving aside) the
~/.inkscape and ~/.inkscape-etc files - Inkscape will create new clean
versions when you start it.
Finally if that doesn't work, set up a new user and try running Inkscape in it
- if you find it runs fine, there's a bad file in your current user that's
getting in the way.
Good luck
Stu
On Mar 4, 2008, at 4:20 AM, Jinzhi Lei wrote:
My Inkscape is not install through Fink, but the dmg file that obtain from
http://www.inkscape.org/ .
I installed inkscape through Fink about one month ago, but it is not succeed. I
doubt if there are conflict between the different versions. Since I found that
Fink use a mixture of own libraries and the system, but not seems the fink's.
Jinzhi.
----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jinzhi Lei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4:23:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Fail to run Inkscape
Jinzhi Lei wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> When I launch Inkscape, I can only got gray a window (see the attached),
> and unable to use Inkscape. If any one can tell me how can I run
> Inkscape in Leopard? I can use Inkscape a month ago, and fail after I
> update the fink sometime. I'm not sure this is because the problem of
> X11 or fink package.
>
> The system informations are: Leopard 10.5.2, X11-2.1.4, Inkscape-0.45.1.
Where did you get this inkscape from? Fink only has inkscape-0.44.1.
Version 0.44.1-1002 works correctly for me. I have the same OSX and X11
versions as you.
--
Martin
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