how to start on Leopard?

[Lewis Overton]

First, thanks for the help.

I did a basic upgrade to get to Leopard. Leopard seems to be working well
except for this problem. I found this information;

Launchd is now in charge of setting the DISPLAY variable, so if you manually
> set it (say, in ~/.bashrc or ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist), your X apps will
> be unable to find the server. To make things work properly, just don't touch
> the DISPLAY variable at all in your init scripts.
>

So I removed references to DISPLAY from .bashrc. Launchd sets DISPLAY to
/tmp/launch-Iu10Gq/:0 while the error message says gnucash is looking for
/tmp/launch-Iu10Gq/:6000 leading to the "can't find display" error. I tried
manually setting DISPLAY to /tmp/launch-Iu10Gq/:6000, but then I get the
error message that it's looking for /tmp/launch-Iu10Gq/:12000.

Next, I tried export DISPLAY=:0.0, which got rid of the "can't find"
message, but produced a new one.
(gnucash:7467): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

I haven't rebuilt gnucash since the Leopard install. I am (was) still
running 2.0.4, which was working well for me. It was installed using
MacPorts. I abandoned Fink a good while back, although it is still hanging
around. Perhaps I should get rid of it.

If I need to rebuild gnucash, I'll take the plunge and go to the current
version. MacPorts offers a variant for install called universal. Do I need
that on this intel MacBook?

Lewy

On Nov 9, 2007 8:44 PM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
> What kind of install/upgrade did you do for Leopard?
>
> Did you rebuild gnucash after the install? (mine worked after an
> upgrade without rebuilding, once I got rid of some fontconfig stuff,
> but I guess I wouldn't count on that. I did end up wiping my disk and
> installing clean eventually -- I had the keychain problem that Apple
> says comes from keychains created before 10.2.8, so I decided to wipe
> out my legacy cruft.
>
> Do you have remnants of something other than Apple's X11? Fink has
> chosen to support only the official Apple X11 for Leopard. It's built
> around X.org 7.2, so at least it's up to date finally. If you used one
> of the other x's, you should plan on cleaning it off and rebuilding
> against Apple's X11 (for which you'll need the X11SDK from the install
> DVD).
>
> Dave
>
> On Nov 10, 2007, at 12:29 AM, Lewis Overton wrote:
>
> > Typing 'gnucash' in a terminal window gets me the response:
> >
> > _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for
> > /tmp/launch-Iu10Gq/:6000: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
> >
> > (gnucash:6223): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> >
> > ... which means absolutely nothing at all to me. I disabled my prior
> > code from .bash_profile set up the display after reading warnings
> > about that. I'm still on version gnucash 2.0.4. I've been waiting
> > until I had a break in demand for reports to upgrade.
> >
> > Any suggestions about what to change? Things won't be desperate for
> > another week or two, but the time is coming.
> >
> > Lewy
> >
> >
> > On Nov 9, 2007 3:17 PM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Nov 9, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Lewis Overton wrote:
> >>
> >>> I just installed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I used to run gnucash by
> >>> typing "open-x11 gucash" in a terminal, but that command (open-
> >>> x11) is
> >>> now gone. How can I start gnucash on the new system?
> >>>
> >>> Lewy
> >>
> >> I haven't tried to do it without any terminal, but in 10.5, x11
> >> starts
> >> automatically if necessary. Type 'gnucash' in a normal terminal, and
> >> gnucash will launch. You could also launch x11.app and type gnucash
> >> in
> >> an xterm window (though there also isn't an .xinitrc by default, so
> >> paths might be screwy).
> >>
> >> Dave
> >> --
> >> David Reiser
> >> dbreiser at earthlink.net
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
> --
>
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
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