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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