More on the Biggles saga

[David Nicholls]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 18:48, Faisal Moledina wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:32 PM, David Nicholls wrote:
>>> Perhaps the problem is XQuartz 2.4.0
>> snip
>> 
>>> I might reinstall the Leopard 10.5.8 combo update again to
>>> overwrite the XQuartz 2.4.0 files and see what happens.
>> That actually brings up a question I have for the MacPorts
>> community. Do ports that depend on X11 ports from MacPorts not open
>> X windows using the MacPorts-provided X server? That is, to show
>> this plot, it seems to open up in the System X11 (judging from the
>> icon in the dock, which is different from that of
>> /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app). I don't have XQuartz 2.4.0
>> installed in order to replicate this error, but why should this
>> cause an issue (if it is the issue) for David?
> 
> Ports that use X11 use the MacPorts X11 *libraries* but will run in
> any X11 *server* -- be that Apple's included one, the one from
> XQuartz, or the xorg-server port in MacPorts.

Is there any way to specify a particular server?

DN

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