lenny bruce wrote:
> At 5:55 PM -0700 9/4/02, John Gnaegy wrote:
>
>> I can launch Gimp from a X11 terminal window and it launches fine, but
>> doing the same thing from MacOS X's Terminal app doesn't work, giving
>> an error like "can't connect to window environment" (I'm rebuilding
>> Gimp right now so I can't try it again and paste the exact wording).
>>
>> Can this be fixed by adding a path somewhere, or is it an intrinsic
>> limitation of XDarwin that you can only launch X11 apps from an X11
>> terminal window?
>>
>> I'm not expecting XDarwin to be launched automatically if an X11 app
>> needs it, that's too much to ask, but mainly I'm wondering what's the
>> difference between the X11 terminal and what it knows about, and MacOS
>> X's Terminal and what it knows about.
Was this question posted to Fink-beginners? I'm not on the beginners
list. Anyway, to run gimp from Aqua terminal, do
setenv DISPLAY :0.0
gimp &
This works only if XDarwin is running.
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