On Feb 12, 2017, at 11:42, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > > I did install port inkscape-app and I get the same behavior — the incessant > appearance and disappearance of the XQuartz icon in the Dock, and NO Inscape > window or items in the menu bar — as when I tried running inkscape from > command line.
Ah ok if the XQuartz icon keeps disappearing then that's probably what's crashing. > I do see an Inkscape icon in the Dock, but it does not have the tell-tale dot > under it to indicate the app is open. Inkscape is not a real Mac app so it won't behave like a normal Mac app icon in the dock. > [I’m beginning to suspect an XQuartz problem, as I’m getting the same issue > with the XQuartz icon when I try to run rCmdr from within RStudio after > giving the RStudio command quartz(). so I completely uninstalled XQuartz and > reinstalled. No change!] > > Not sure what the “usual place” means for crash logs. ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports