Gimp and X11

The download always tells you that it requires X11 and that you shouldn't download the one from the site. So I go on to my OSX Tiger disk and realize that the package is X11SDK.pkg, and everything I keep reading says you need X11User.pkg. I've looked everywhere for it on my own and am now going to ask for some help. Does anyone have any information on this type of problem.

I finally found something that helped. I;m sorry for the post.

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Using GIMP and X11

I originally posted this elsewhere in discussions; however this may be a better placement for it.
I use GIMP which requires X11 and recently it has stopped working. I rolled back to an older version of GIMP, installed the Xll upgrade on the Leopard DVD but all to no avail. Right now, GIMP crashes and X11 won't even start when I double click from the applications/utilities folder.
Thanks in advance for any help that any may provide.

Tim Gaub wrote:
I use GIMP which requires X11 and recently it has stopped working.
Did this coincide with any other changes? (e.g. OS update, software changes...)
I rolled back to an older version of GIMP,
So which versions have you tried? Which package are you using? (There are various pre-packaged versions of GIMP for OS X from different groups.)
installed the Xll upgrade on the Leopard DVD but all to no avail.
So which version of X11 were you using before if not the one from the DVD? There may be updates to this version available from Apple. Is it possible you actually installed the DVD version over the top of a later version? /Library/Receipts may show packages installed for X11 if they were separate packages and not part of more general updates.
Right now, GIMP crashes and X11 won't even start when I double click from the applications/utilities folder.
The former is expected given the latter. What exactly happens when you try to open X11? Do you see any useful messages in the log files? (Look at system.log and console.log using /Applications/Utilities/Console and/or open X11 from Terminal and see what error messages you get.)
Are you on ppc or intel?
- cfr

Gimp and x11 driving me crazy

Hi,
I have an iBook G4 running Tiger 10.4.6
I have installed the whole xcodes package per instructions from Apple support from the Tiger Installation disk and have tried to run Gimp 2.2.1 and gotten an error code that says I need X11 which I thought installed with the xcode.
The installed components are in my devloper folder and when I double click Xcode it opens up but no go with Gimp. I have searched the forums and evenn tried some of the suggestions but nothing. All I wanted was a graphics app that was affordable and somewhat easy to use.
Please help the super newbie who does not know the first thing about dev tools.
Thanx.
Maya613

Wade,
You're brilliant--it worked!
I started it up and X11 starts up with a terminal window (is that normal?)
Gimp went through installation process and looks like it is functioning--yahoo!
Now, one more question--do i need that whole xcodetools.mpkg file too since I now have the X11 app or all they are all working in conjunction with eacother?
I have a small HD so any programs or utilities I don't need I would like to get rid of.
Thanks again!
Maya613

X11 troubles with gimp and inkscape

Hi everybody!
I'm using 10.5.8 with x11, i cannot find info on it
Everything was fine until i was using my terminal app and
x11 on ssh connections, running some x11 stuff like root, emacs,
without any problem
I need to use gimp and inkscape but both downloaded, I cannot see any
window, menu or palette
Why? Where I have to go to fix this ?
Thanks a lot to eveyone that help me fixing this

paolo.risso wrote:
and I want to know where I have to look at to understand my x11 setup.
It should just work fine out of the box. Many people don't understand how X11 works on the Mac and rush over to try to replace the built-in X11 with some open-source build or bleeding edge variant. I use X11 6-9 hours a day and I've never touched a thing to configure it.
I don't know what i did but after a long time inkscape window appeared,
cpu usage and memory where fine, no heavy jobs were done but i had a lot
of troubles to gain a window working... why ?
The first time you run inkscape, it has to setup fonts and some other stuff. It takes a while.

X11 and X11 applications won't start

I seem to be having a problem getting the X11 application, which I installed from the 'optional installs' package on the OS X installation DVD, working. I originally posted this elsewhere, but was advised to post it here, where people familiar with X11 might be able to help.
I'll just quote what I posted elsewhere below, and hopefully someone can help.
I seem to be having a problem with the X11 utility, which I installed off of the OS X DVD (from the 'optional installs' package), and a problem with The Gimp, both of which i think are probably related.
Well I installed The Gimp a while ago, aswell as the X11 program, and both worked fine (you probably already know that The Gimp needs X11 to run). But at some point, it suddenly stopped working. I think it may have been after an update, but I really can't remember.
The problem I was having with The Gimp is that it would go to start up, but just after the X11 icon appeared in the dock, the cursor would change to an X for a few seconds. The splash screen would come up, but it didn't even appear to have a background or progress bar or anything, and didn't do anything.
At that point, just running X11 on it's own, or OpenOffice.org worked fine.
Well recently, i've tried to run The Gimp again, and something different happens. The X11 icon comes up and starts bouncing in the dock, but after a few seconds, it closes again, and The Gimp tells me that it needs X11 to run (which I already have of course).
When I try to run X11 on it's own, the same thing happens. The icon comes up in the dock, starts bouncing, then goes again.
I've used the Console program in the Utilities folder, and both times, for both problems (when The Gimp had the funny splash screen and wouldn't start, when it wouldn't start up at all, and when X11 wouldn't start), I get the same few lines which might help, these are below:
XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1280x1024 @ (0,0)
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
Quitting XDarwin...
So now, I have The Gimp that doesn't work, X11 that doesn't work, and OpenOffice.org doesn't work either (same problem where X11 quits), which is rather annoying, since I could do with using The Gimp.
I hope that explains my problem a bit, and I hope someone can help me sort it out. Thanks in advance for any help
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1.33 GHz Power PC G4, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HD

I have a similar problem that I described in a different forum, but was referred to this one and hope that someone can give me clue.
My original message was:
Hello,
Brandnew here and new to the Mac environment (former Windows user), so excuse for anything dumb as it may follow.
Wanting to install GIS software (Grass GIS) it appears to require X11 application. Found the refence in Machelp to the topic on the Apple site. However, it doesn't provide a link to the actual software, just states it is on the Install disc. Indeed, there is a package on the install disk (under Xcode Tools/Packages) called X11SDK.pkg. I thought that this might be the required app, but after installation of the Xcode tools the Grass software still doesn't function (start-up screen only and error message indicating that there is no X11 found).
Thus the question is: how do I properly install the X11 app and where do I find the software?
I hope that someone can help me out (as the AppleCare helpdesk doesn't seem to function today). Many thanks in advance.
Bram

OS X 10.6.4 update broke Eclipse, Gimp and Inkescape

Hi,
after I took the latest update, the eclipse application won't start unless I invoke it from the terminal with open Eclipse.app. Here is the message:
A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse.
No Java virtual machine
was found after searching the following locations:
/Users/****/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/jre/bin/java
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Also, both Gimp and Inkscape won't start, neither from terminal nor Finder. Inkscape displays the message:
"Failed to start X11
Inkscape.app requires Apple's X11, which is freely downloadable from Apple's website for Panther (10.3.x) users and available as an optional install from the installation DVD for Tiger (10.4.x) users.
Please install X11 and restart Inkscape"
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Tim Gaub wrote:
I use GIMP which requires X11 and recently it has stopped working.
Did this coincide with any other changes? (e.g. OS update, software changes...)
I rolled back to an older version of GIMP,
So which versions have you tried? Which package are you using? (There are various pre-packaged versions of GIMP for OS X from different groups.)
installed the Xll upgrade on the Leopard DVD but all to no avail.
So which version of X11 were you using before if not the one from the DVD? There may be updates to this version available from Apple. Is it possible you actually installed the DVD version over the top of a later version? /Library/Receipts may show packages installed for X11 if they were separate packages and not part of more general updates.
Right now, GIMP crashes and X11 won't even start when I double click from the applications/utilities folder.
The former is expected given the latter. What exactly happens when you try to open X11? Do you see any useful messages in the log files? (Look at system.log and console.log using /Applications/Utilities/Console and/or open X11 from Terminal and see what error messages you get.)
Are you on ppc or intel?
- cfr

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Has XQuartz replaced something else and if so what is it and can it be installed again.
I am also running Mountain Lion.
On another note, can you re-install mountain lion???
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Connected characters in Photoshop, GIMP and even Notepad

Hello!
Lately, Photoshop, GIMP and even MS Notepad connect letters (for instance "f" and "i") in various fonts (Myriad, ...). Even though I only operate Vista computers, this issue does not occur on other computers.
In the screenshot below you can see Myriad Pro font and the "fi" in the text seems to be too connected. As said, occuring in GIMP and notepad, too, however, not on other machines.
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10.5.6 and Terminal and X11

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1. Terminal default login shell is now tcsh instead of bash. Need to go to preferences and select /bin/bash.
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eric.paterson wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion on reposting in the Unix forum.
Also, no offense, but sudo stands for "super user do," also the manpage says,
Actually su stands for switch user, which defaults to the root user if no other user is given. Otherwise su would be something like
su nero
to allow any user to take over the account nero.
%man sudo
sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user.....
Yes but there are things that cannot be done via sudo, but only by actually logging in as su.
For example, I recently discovered that I can read a DVD-RAM that has the main folder tagged as nobody for permissions. I could not open it with sudo, but had no problem as su.
Another time I could not delete a file using sudo but su allowed me to do so.
The differences are probably very small and not well documented, but if you do enough playing around in the terminal, you will eventually hit something that requires su, and sudo will not work.

Gimp and Inkscape Segfaulting [SELF SOLVED]

After today, probably from an update, both GIMP and Inkscape segfault. Inkscape won't launch because of this, and GIMP cannot open SVGs or save as PNG (probably other formats too), without segfaulting and giving up (though it doesn't quit because of this.
I looked in dmesg, and here's what I got:
Inkscape
inkscape[15380]: segfault at 229d000 ip 00007f7f405587b8 sp 00007fff70580810 error 4 in libX11.so.6.3.0[7f7f404fe000+137000]
GIMP
gimp-2.6[12670]: segfault at fda000 ip 00007f27821de7b8 sp 00007fff66e92ae0 error 4 in libX11.so.6.3.0[7f2782184000+137000]
Last edited by kmason (2010-07-25 19:07:45)

kmason wrote:
Nope, didn't work - I did the following steps, and it didn't help:
# pacman -Rd libx11
# pacman -S libx11
# reboot
Although, this did start happening after I removed some gnome related Graphical Applications in favor of CLI or generic ones (including switching gnome-power-manager for ACPID and gnome-screensaver for xscreensaver). Would that have anything to do with it?
Unlikely. Were there any upgrades to your graphic drivers recently?

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