[X-Unix] !@#$@!#$%$% X11 (in Leopard of course)!

[Brian Medley]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Mac Daddy wrote:

>From 10.4.11:

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[bpm at snafu] c:~/bin/Privoxy>/usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz -version 

XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
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Have you tried ssh -v and looked for clues?  Can you look at the
log files on either machine?


>  No. I have X11 installed.
> 
>  Could the problem be that it's the old X11 app from Tiger? And that doesn't 
>  work on Leopard? It seemed to be exhibiting the same Dock behavior as my 
>  other install so I thought it was the new one ...
> 
>  My Leopard DVD isn't with me so I'll have to wait to try a re-installation.
> 
>  Maybe I can find another ...
> 
>  - md
> 
> 
> 
>  On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Eric F Crist wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it's a dumb question, but did you reinstall X11?  It's not included 
> > by default, IIRC.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Mac Daddy wrote:
> >
> >> I've been liking Leopard at the gui level very much! But the changes they 
> >> made affecting my command line use are real P.I.A.s!!!
> >>
> >> At home I did an upgrade install of 10.5 over 10.4 and X11(and everything 
> >> else) works perfectly! I do an 'ssh -Y <hostname>' into any one of my 
> >> linux machines and launch an X app and it just comes up. Very nice (though 
> >> the new autolaunching of X11 is ... strange ... when you used it the other 
> >> way before).
> >>
> >> On my laptop I did an Archive and Install to see if a "clean" installation 
> >> was any different or better. It's different allright, but not better! 
> >> Grrr.
> >>
> >> Here if I do an 'ssh -Y <hostname>' and run an X app from one of my linux 
> >> boxes, nothing ever comes up!
> >>
> >> Anybody else had this and overcome it?
> >>
> >>
> >> -md
> >>
> >> P.S.
> >>
> >> Along the same lines, nice that I can use flat files to enable NFS shares 
> >> so I don't need to use NFS Manager (which is not an option since it's not 
> >> compatible with 10.5), but GEEEZZ! The whole /etc/exports format  just HAS 
> >> to be entirely different!!! Took so #$%$#^^& long to get something so 
> >> simple up .... Is it a BSD-ism or do they just want to annoy?
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> > Eric F Crist
> > Secure Computing Networks
> >
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Brian Medley