Hi David,
I think you sort of provide an answer to a previous question of mine.
I have downloaded 1.2a5 but must admit I am a little queasy about the
command line installation, which I assume is done in an X11 xterm window.
I have tried simply unzipping and copying the Xquartz file to the
/usr/X11/bin directory, but that doesn't seem to confer executable
permission on the file, which is necessary for it to do its job.
I have found that starting X11 from its representation in
/Applications/Utilities seems to work fine. From there, I have added
command lines to the Applications menu to start each of swriter, scalc,
and simpress, each of which are of the form /Applications/OpenOffice.org
2.3.app/Contents/MacOS/swriter (or /scalc or /simpress). By starting up
X11 thus and opening the desired OO app from the Applications menu,
things get rolling pretty quickly.
I have found that trying to open X11 by directly executing the app file
in the /usr/X11 directory seems to make a mess of things. On must start
X11 indirectly (presumably) by executing the stub or whatever it is in
/Applications/Utilities.
As I have said before, once one gets OO going under X11 it seems to
work, but I swear the visuals are slower--e.g., things seem slow to
repaint when you resize the window, open a menu, or get presented with a
dialog box.
For the most part I have been impressed with Leopard and am glad I spent
the money, but these glitches with X11 and OO are disappointing. Maybe I
should get courageous and install 1.2a5 following the instructions at
the link you give and see if I witness an improvement. In the meantime,
I seem to have things working.
Les
David Lowe wrote:
On Nov 3, 2007, at 10:15 PM, David Lowe wrote:
I'm now getting reports of the Xquartz 1.2a4 release still having
problems.
There is already version 1.2a5 released. As usual, no guarantees;
if X11 is not working well for you right now, it might not hurt to
try... http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin
Using a rusty Amiga 4000T, a shiny PowerMac G5, & a homebuilt Ubuntu box
Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. -
Shakespeare
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