<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Fine. How can I figure out about the configuration of my X11 server? Don’t know whether I have an X11 server at all.<div class="">port list tells me I have </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">xorg-server @1.20.4 x11/xorg-server</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">among other lots of xorg-stuff.</font></span></div></div></div><div class="">—</div><div class="">Christoph</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 17.04.2019 um 11:09 schrieb Chris Jones <<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk" class="">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">Your problem is<br class=""><br class="">export DISPLAY=:0<br class="">xhost +<br class=""><br class="">don't do this.<br class=""><br class="">Just run gv, and allow your X11 server to automatically tart, which it should, if it is correctly configured.<br class=""><br class="">Chris<br class=""><br class="">On 17/04/2019 10:06 am, Christoph Kukulies wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I installed the „gv“ port (ghostview). Worked. I can give gv on the command line (shell prompt).<br class="">But I’m getting:<br class="">Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$ export DISPLAY=:0<br class="">Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$ xhost +<br class="">xhost: unable to open display ":0"<br class="">Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$ gv<br class="">gv: Unable to open the display.<br class="">Christophs-MBP:~ kuku$<br class="">I thought, X11 apps can run against the macOS desktop server, can’t they?<br class="">Or do I have to run an extra X11-server?<br class="">—<br class="">Christoph<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>