More on the Biggles saga

[Ryan Schmidt]

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.