Using X11 in Leopard--Why does no xterm window appear

I am unable to get an xterm terminal window on my screen when I click on the X11 application icon. The computer seems to think that xterm is already open. When I hunt for xterm or X11 using ps in the bash terminal window and stop all of the xterm processes I still have this problem.

not sure if this is exactly your issue but there is a bug (acknowledged by apple) introduced by one of the point updates which prevents X11 from running.
installing the latest version of X 11 from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.3.0
usually fixes the issue.

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