XV and GV hanging

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> 1. Do you have an X11 server installed? Look in /Applications/MacPorts 
> for it. Mine is called X11.app.

Yep.

> 2. Does it run if you double click it?

Yep.

> 3. If it does run, open an xterm terminal from the "Applications" menu 
> in the X11.app. (you obviously do need xterm installed for it to open).

Hmmm...  Nope (and neither does "xlogo" nor "xman" from that menu.

> 4. If xterm does open -- try running your xeyes or other x11 
> applications from the xterm terminal. That often works even when the 
> Terminal application won't open them.

Looks like X11 is well and truly nobbled (but as I said it used to work).

> NB having two different X11 infrastructures installed, eg MacPorts X11 
> and another one like XQuartz or Apple's X11 infrastructure, is just a 
> recipe for disaster. Many folks have solved their X11 headaches by 
> stripping out everything except the one they want (usually the MacPorts 
> one is the one you want).

Agreed; is there a way to get things to build with XQuartz, or will that 
"just work" if I blow away X11 without dragging it in?

-- Dave