On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Wizard Consulting wrote: > On 03/19/2002 04:45, "Chris Devers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Grasping at straws, but does restarting X-Windows help anything? > > I never directly launched it (I didn't know I had to). How do I do this?
Ahh, there's the problem then: Gimp (as well as all the Gnome stuff) is (are) X11 applications, and can only be run from within X-Windows. [X11 and X-Windows refer to the same thing, and the terms are used equally.] You need to launch X before you can run Gimp, typically by typing: % startx Though you should be able to add parameters to that to make it run either in "rootless" mode (sitting on top of & parallel to Aqua) or "fullscreen" (running on top of and *hiding* Aqua behind it). Most OSX users seem to prefer rootless mode, but it's up to you. How this works and how this behaves depends a little bit on your setup, but generally (I think) you do something like % startx --rootless ...and you'll get X running rootlessly. The reason I'm not sure about the details there is that I'm running XDarwin now, and it lets me launch X by clicking in the Dock and automatically going into rootless or fullscreen mode, depending on what your preferences are. I haven't been using the startx command and I forget what the syntax for the parameters is/are, but if you can find the archives for the Fink lists I know it has been mentioned recently. In any event, once you get X11 running, Gimp should run just fine. And until then, it isn't going to do anything at all... :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
