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

[Eric F Crist]

Glad to hear you got it fixed!

Eric

On Dec 17, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Mac Daddy wrote:

> THAT WAS IT! The old Tiger X11 was still on disk, and even started  
> bouncing in the dock when I did an 'ssh -Y <machine>', so I thought  
> I had X11 .  But it doesn't actually *work*.
>
> Borrowed a friend's DVD and installed new X11 and now everything's  
> fine.
>
> - md
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Mac Daddy wrote:
>
>> 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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