Problem installing Firefox-X11 with Gnucash

[Boey Maun Suang]

Hi there,

> sorry for the post but I thought X11 would be kind of kicked on  
> demand.

Unfortunately not.  Almost all programs written for X11 are written  
with the expectation that X11 is the windowing system being used (by  
contrast with, say, Aqua on Mac OS X or the Windows GUI), and so  
don't know anything about other windowing systems.  Some projects  
provide a wrapper to automatically launch X11 if it isn't already  
running so that the main program will then work, but the only one  
that I know of that does this is the binary release of  
OpenOffice.org.  It might be possible to add some code to MacPorts to  
provide a wrapper script for all X11 software to make launching  
easier in this way, but I don't really know how to do that.

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

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