tomtefar Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hi If I start X11 from Application/Utilities I can invoke a new xterm by choosing "Terminal" under the "Applications" menu in X11. But, if I wanna start a new xterm from a "Mac OS X" Terminal command line I get the error: "xterm Xt error: Can't open display" eventhough I still have X11 running. I have updated my X11 with the 1.1.3/2006 update from Apple and I've tried setting the DISPLAY variable. Can someone help me?? Please... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 First: If you set your DISPLAY variable correctly and X11 is open, you should be able to launch an xterm from Terminal.app Second: Why would you want to do this? I'm curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 Yeah I guess it is not that obvious why I would like to do it. Short version: I'm writing a program, or rather a plugin, for a program that runs under X11 and I would like to use GLUT in that plugin. I have some problems with GLUT not being able to open a window due to the same error as I'm having when trying to start xterm from Terminal.app. So my question is a part of my debugging of the other plugin. I don't know if that makes sense? But if I can get the xterm to start maybe I know what parameters to set / send to GLUT to make work. But... you are right, just tested it again and I did set the DISPLAY wrong. So this did not help me the way I wanted. Thanks for your reply though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 It makes a little bit of sense... Admittedly I do have a bit of disdain for only being able to use X11 under OS X when you have a perfectly good windowing system sitting there wanting to be used (especially because GTK+ doesn't have good support for it and KDE4 isn't ready yet). I have no idea what the style of the program you're working with is like, but GLUT is supposed to be one of Apple's supported methods of using OpenGL.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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