Problem installing Firefox-X11 with Gnucash

[Emmanuel Hainry]

Citando 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.
> 

The simplest way would be to use the 'open-x11' command.
	open-x11 oclock
should launch x11 if necessary, then oclock.


Emmanuel
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