On 22/ott/05, at 04:26, Bill Northcott wrote: > On 21/10/2005, at 8:00 PM, stefano iacus wrote: > >>> A: This is expected behavior in the Xauthority authentication >>> mechanism which X11 for Mac OS X uses by default. The problem is >>> that Xauth uses two keys, the ip address and hostname of the system >>> running the X server. But these keys don't get updated if you >>> change the network configuration. You can disable authentication >>> from the "Security" tab of X11.app's preferences. Be aware that >>> doing so may create a security hole. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> thanks Thomas. So the answer to James' problem is that we can't do >> anything special in R/R.app to solve this as this is a general OS X >> issue. >> >> > Surely this is not a MacOS X issue but an X11 one. People don't > usually run X11 on notebooks. ummh, this is not true in my opinion... but ok, the issue is in X11 not in OS X.
> So it only tends to arise with a > Powerbook. > > Of course the solution really does lie with R.app, but it is also non- > trivial. Since the introduction of Tiger some months back, Tcl/tk is > a standard part of MacOS X. The problem is that R.app is not > friendly to Aqua Tcl/Tk extensions of R. So it would be good to fix > this, if someone has the time, skills and inclination. I have the > last but I am very short of the first two. to make R.app aqua-tcltk friendly needs internal change in R-Event- Loop. This is a long going discussion in R-core and different approaches were proposed. It is not a trivial change, but when done everything should work out-of-the-box with R.app. stefano > > Bill Northcott > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
