thanks Maun Suang,

both posts very helful!

-Jean

Boey Maun Suang wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>> sorry for the post but I thought X11 would be kind of kicked on demand.
>
> Unfortunately not.  Almost all programs written for X11 are written
> with the expectation that X11 is the windowing system being used (by
> contrast with, say, Aqua on Mac OS X or the Windows GUI), and so don't
> know anything about other windowing systems.  Some projects provide a
> wrapper to automatically launch X11 if it isn't already running so
> that the main program will then work, but the only one that I know of
> that does this is the binary release of OpenOffice.org.  It might be
> possible to add some code to MacPorts to provide a wrapper script for
> all X11 software to make launching easier in this way, but I don't
> really know how to do that.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Maun Suang
>

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