Re: First time macports need help with PAN

[Riccardo Mottola via macports-users]

Hi "alien"

alien wrote:
I am first time user using macports with high sierra 10.13., I was using 
homebrew, since I want to install PAN http://pan.rebelbase.com/ so I 
deleted homebrew, installed macports and I followed the instruction to 
install PAN.


But when I start the program in terminal it said

(pan:1058): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:41:04.111: cannot open display:

I tried to the error message on google, but I cannot find, how to solve 
this problem on high sierra.


Thank you in advance for your help and advise.



this means that your application is trying to open an X11 display but 
you have no X11 running.


I see two options:
-> install X11 server (unluckily, at some point Apple stopped supplying 
one, so MacPorts has one)
-> see if your specific Application has a "native" variant, which in 
MacPorts is usually enabled with the +quartz variant


E.g. gimp has both versions, but defaults to X11.

Riccardo

Re: First time macports need help with PAN

[Ken Cunningham]

most of the time, that issue with x11 apps finding the proper display server 
can be solved by either logging out then back in again, or just restarting your 
computer.

If you've done that and still have the issue, please report back!

Ken