Cary,
A little explanation may make things a bit clearer and easier to
deal with. Apple uses the Quartz windowing system which is their
own and proprietary. The X-11 windowing system is the standard
one used under Unix and Linux. Apple does not install X-11 by
default as part of the OS X install.
But Apple does have a version of the X-11 windowing system for
the Mac and OS X. It is on the install disks for OS X for most of the
Macs. You need to insert the install disk and reboot your Mac to
boot from the installer and then do a custom install and install the
X-11 windowing system. It will install and do all the configuration
needed. It is only a few clicks away.
Upon rebooting into the OS X from the hard disk. X-11 will now be
there. You may need to re-install OOo if it cannot find X-11 and then
everything should be fine.
It is not difficult at all. It is just a minor Apple caused
inconvenience.
Apple does not believe enough of us want to use X-11 to make it
part of the standard install.
I have installed it on numerous Macs. The only real difficulty was with
the eMac at work. Since Apple considers the eMac a "consumer"
machine, they did not put X-11 on the install disks for OS X 10.3 for
the eMac. It took a few phone calls to Apple's support line to get
escalated to the 2nd tier and get ahold of someone who could
understand the problem. The upshot was that I downloaded the
X-11 for OS X 10.3 from Apple's web site and installed it. No further
problems and I am running OOo 2.0 on it as well as my other Macs
and Linux boxes.
Install X-11 on your Mac and enjoy OOo on OS X.
Ross Bernheim
On Aug 15, 2006, at 17:41, Cary Howe wrote:
Looks like my migration to Mac is costing me Open
Office. After waiting forever for an Intel Mac version
I tried to in stall it only to get that bloody X11
warning. Well I have dug in and tried to sort through
X11 but I'm not a hacker and haven't a clue how to
shoe horn it into my machine and being new to Mac I'm
wary of screwing up my system. I'm not a novice and
have built a lot of machines over the years and have
worked with computers for 20 years now. Unfortunately
I mostly use software and I'm not into manually
installing software. I did some of it back in the DOS
days but X11 seems way over my head. Really upsetting
that I have to give up on Open Office because of this
required utility. I just don't know what else to do at
this point. I hate Microsoft Office so I can't go back
to it but there just isn't much else out there. It may
have seemed like a cool thing to do running Open
Office through the Unix portion of OSX but it leaves a
lot of users like me out in the cold. Is there a
version of X11 that self installs?
Cary
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