gnuCash And OS X

[Tristan Chase]

On Thursday, Apr 8, 2004, at 09:02 America/New_York, Tristan Chase 
wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, Apr 7, 2004, at 14:08 America/New_York, Michel Erard 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've seen, that you have a lot of experience with gnucash on OS X.
>> I'm using 10.3 and have installet gnucash with the help of fink. Now 
>> when i try to start gnucash I've the following error on console:
>>
>> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>>
>> Do you know, what's going wrong?
>>
>> thanks Mike
>>
>>
>
> Dear Mike,
>
> You cannot run GnuCash from Terminal.app. You need to use X11. If you 
> need to download it, get it here:
>
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/xfree86.html
>
> I read somewhere why things like GnuCash and Gimp don't work in 
> Terminal, but I don't remember where or why. It has something to do 
> with the internal workings of OS X. Anyway, it works just fine in X11.
>
> Hope this helps.
>

I found a lot of good information on this here:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/x11.en.html#trouble.locale

Actually, the entire page is worth a read as it  explains a lot.

-Tristan