Re: [Swarm-Support] mac osx last ditch

[Ed Baskerville]

Just noticed the post, so a late reply...

To run X11 apps from Apple's Terminal.app, set your DISPLAY environment 
variable to localhost:0:

for tcsh:

setenv DISPLAY localhost:0

for bash:

DISPLAY = localhost:0
export DISPLAY

--Ed

On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 06:51 PM, Bill Northcott wrote:

> Duh.  Don't you hate doing computer support when you can' t stand 
> behind
> people and watch they are doing.
>
> I finally managed to reproduce your problem.  The answer is very 
> simple:
> You have to run the X11 GUI apps from an X11 terminal.  You could 
> probably
> make them run from an Aqua terminal, but you will need to set up more
> environment variables.  Compare printenv in an Xterm with the output of
> the same command in the MacOS X Terminal.  Tk is grokking because it 
> can't
> find the X11 libraries!
>
> Bill Northcott
>
> address@hidden wrote on 29/03/2003 12:22:16 PM:
>
> > Thanks - I've tried installing on a completely clean 10.2 on a
> > different machine (powerbook G3 instead of a pbG4) in case I had
> > rogue installs left around, amd fixing the path - but the results are
> > the same! The non-graphic swarm apps run happily, heatbugs etc all
> > give:
>
> > [Jonathan-Impetts-Computer:~/swarmapps-2.1.1/heatbugs] jonathan%
> ./heatbugs
> > error: TkExtra (instance)
>
> > Abort
>
> > I guess I'm doing something wrong in the tk installation,
> > therefore. The packages all appear in (and only in) /Receipts. The
> > sequence was as follows:
> > OS X Developer, X11, X11SDK (all from Apple)
> > BLT, gcc, gsed, tclX, tkX, hdf5, libpng, swarmx (latest) (all from
> swarmx)
> > download & unzip swarmapps2.1.1
> > setenvs as described in ReadMe
> > make heatbugs (complains only about missing dir /billn and multiply
> > defined _tclStubsPtr, _tclPlatStubsPtr, _tclIntPlatStubsPtr,
> > _tclIntStubsPtr, _TclInitStubs)
>
> > Jonathan
>
> > > Sorry about the delay replying, but I have been rather busy and 
> > > missed
> > > your message.
> > >
> > > I have never seen anything like your error.  However, I notice your
> path
> > > contains both a space and parentheses.  These are not usually allowed
> in
> > > UNIX paths and I avoid them, because they can create problems with 
> > > UNIX
> > > tools which assume a space to be an argument seperator.
> > >
> > > Bill Northcott
> > >
> > > address@hidden wrote on 05/03/2003 04:32:48 AM:
> > >
> > > >  Hello,
> > > >          Giving great thanks, I succeeded in installing the various
> > > >  OSX packages and Mac X11 etc. Heatbugs made with only minor 
> > > > warnings
> > > >  (/billn missing, some duplication). On trying to run, it aborted
> > > >  thus. Any ideas?
> > > >          Thanks,
> > > >         Jonathan
>
> > --
> > ------------------
> > Dr Jonathan Impett
> > School of Music
> > University of East Anglia
> > Norwich NR4 7TJ
> > UK
> > +44 (0)1603 592408
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