display issue when launching qalculate

[Ken Cunningham]

You need an xserver installed. Macports has one, or there is xquartz. 

Ken

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> On Jan 25, 2018, at 12:41 PM, Murray Davis <murray.g.davis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This morning, I installed qalculate on my MacOSX system.
> 
> High Sierra, MacPorts up-to-date, version 2.4.2.
> 
> When I try to launch qalculate, I get the following error...
> 
> ~ $ qalculate-gtk
> 
> (qalculate-gtk:1638): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display
> 
> I played around with the DISPLAY environment variables as well as installing the mac port, xorg-server. However, the only thing that worked was installing XQartz and then launching qalculate from its terminal program.
> 
> This is not an ideal solution since the graphics of the app are very poor.
> 
> Is there another solution that would allow qalculate to open with Mac graphic quality?
> 
> Murray
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