Hello Christopher et al.,

Thank you very much for your help! It worked. I’m very glad to see the familiar 
old-school look of Xfig. I had it on my mind that something may be wrong with 
X11 server, but forgot about it. Thank you!

—
Best wishes,
Maxim

Maxim Abalenkov \\ [email protected]
+44 7 486 486 505 \\ http://mabalenk.gitlab.io

> On 17 May 2021, at 10:30, Christopher Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> fig is an X11 application, and thuis requires an X11 server to be installed 
> to work. Do you have one installed ? If you are not sure run
> 
> sudo port install xorg-server 
> 
> and follow the instructions at the end to log out and back in again, and then 
> retry running xfig.
> 
> Chris
> 
>> On 17 May 2021, at 8:20 am, Maxim Abalenkov <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> How are you? I need help launching Xfig @ macOS BigSur 11.3.1. Yesterday I 
>> installed the Xfig port (xfig @3.2.8a_0). It installed successfully. But 
>> when I try to launch it from the terminal it hangs. Nothing happens. Would 
>> you please help me to find the problem? I tried to “clean" the port and 
>> install it again, but it didn’t help. Thank you and have a good day ahead!
>> 
>> —
>> Best wishes,
>> Maxim
>> 
>> Maxim Abalenkov \\ [email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>> +44 7 486 486 505 \\ http://mabalenk.gitlab.io <http://mabalenk.gitlab.io/>

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