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ssh -X does not work on Yosemite
Can no longer use X11 with ssh. Have XQuartz2.7.7 installed. Logging in with X11 via ssh gives the warnings
Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated
Warning: ...
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Install InkScape without XQuartz
Is it possible to install InkScape without XQuartz?
I did install it already and it's working but I feel like it's not that native (e.g. the menu doesn't appear on the top pannel but until the title ...
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Alternatives for XQuartz?
XQuartz was always the goto for running X applications on a MacOS desktop. It's been a couple of years since the last version of Quartz and there is no activity on the github, so we may assume that ...
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What is XQuartz?
I have been researching about XQuartz a lot but I haven't been able to find much information.
I found out that it some kind of window manager provider.
I was wondering does it replace the default ...
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Xquartz crash infinite loop in Mountain Lion?
I'm trying to get Xquartz to work in Mountain Lion, but when I click it, it starts up, then crash, then starts up again etc. It loops like this until I reboot or logout.
My console says this for ...
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Do I have to reinstall XQuartz every time I upgrade MacOS?
I use a slightly weird setup where I will connect from my Mac laptop to a linux machine, using ssh -X, and from there connect to a Windows machine using rdesktop. This works just fine, but whenever I ...
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How to determine which one process owns particular window
How to know which process or App is responsible for creating/managing a particular window in macOS?
In my case I got really cryptic error message, in non modal free floating window.
Using message ...
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Start XQuartz automatically on X11 app launch
Before switcthing to Mac OSX 10.8 everytime I launch application which uses x11 it was starting x11 automatically.
After switching to XQuartz and 10.8 it does not work anymore and I have to launch ...
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Does XQuartz work on macOS Mojave?
The latest version is from 2016:
https://www.xquartz.org/
I will try it out .. but wonder if there were some pointers / warnings about this..
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Why doesn't (can't?) terminal support the x11 protocol?
It would be great to be able to x tunnel over ssh; why does one have to use XQuartz (etc) instead?
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Is there a way to move a window without the mouse?
Since installing Mavericks whenever I open a new window in XQuartz (say gvim) it positions the newly created window at the top left of my monitor. Because every monitor now has a menu bar, the menu ...
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preventing ssh command from opening xquartz on every session
Whenever I use ssh, after I type the password, xQuartz pop ups in the dock and terminal window looses focus. This happens even if there's no an X session. Why? How to prevent this behavior?
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Will there be consequences or issues if I install XQuartz?
I need to install XQuartz to install Inkscape, a vector graphics application.
May I know if issues would come when I install XQuartz? I'm new to OS X and I find the need to install an application to ...
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XQuartz has a black background with all apps
I'm running M1 Big Sur with Xquartz. For some reason, the background of all apps run with Xquartz is black (and it sometimes flickers). It seems that XQuartz is trying to help out by forcing a "...
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How to 'startx' from Single User Mode?
I usually run dwm inside Xquartz on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. But is there a way to boot into Safe Mode (or a console), then startx or xinit, skipping Aqua? I'd like to boot directly into X11.
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El Capitan XQuartz fails to open. Abnormal code 126
I am running 10.11.2 on a Macbook Pro and have downloaded the Quartz 2.7.9 and installed it. The installation GUI claims the XQuartz installation was successful. I rebooted my machine and logged ...
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XQuartz crash and infinite loop on Mojave
XQuartz is crashing constantly and going in an infinite loop on macOS Mojave.
On doing a xinit in the terminal I get:
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to Xserver : connection refused
xinit: ...
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XQuartz crashing in infinite loop -- El Capitan edition
I have a MacBook Air running OSX El Capitan, version 10.11.6. I downloaded XQuartz 2.7.11, but when the program that uses it launches it (or I double-click it in the Utilities folder), XQuartz begins ...
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OS X as X Window Server
Is it possible to serve Mac applications like iPhoto over a network to X Window clients?
Our problem is that a broken Graphics card is causing a lot of stripes etc on the screen.
Other remote ...
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What is the difference of an Inkscape installation via MacPorts with +Quartz or +X11 option?
For macOS (High Sierra) Inkscape can be installed via MacPorts with two options: +Quartz or +X11. What is the difference? Which version is (more) recommended?
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After Mavericks 10.9.2 Update, problems running Keepass/Mono
I have a rMBP 13" late 2013 model and just updated Mavericks today to 10.9.2 (Software OS X 10.9.2 (13C64))
I have been using the OSX package of keepass from here (Openix) without any issues before ...
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MacOS can't display an open3d window from remote server，GLX_ARB_create_context_profile is unavailable
Problem
Device and OS version: MacBook Pro 2021 Apple Silicon 13.0.1 (22A400)
The remote server can't forward open3d window to my Mac
the codes are as follows:
import copy
import numpy as np
import ...
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How to make switching between windows in XQuartz work again
After an upgrade to Big Sur I am no longer able to use ⌘ Cmd + ` to switch between windows in XQuartz.
Previously, like on this MacOS Mojave with the same version of XQuartz (2.8.0_beta1)
installed, ...
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Xquartz problem for OS 10.14
Recently upgraded to Mojave (10.14) and I'm having a problem creating X apps from the terminal.
OSX 10.14.6
XQuartz 2.7.11 (xorg-server 1.18.4)
[08:44][{501}]% printenv DISPLAY
/private/tmp/com....
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XQuartz was recently upgraded. Some apps that used X11 no longer work
Recently XQuartz was automatically updated on my Mac running High Sierra. Now the apps that used X11 no longer work. I also noticed that if I run XQuartz by double-clicking on the app it opens but ...
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AutoRaise (bring window to front) - XQuartz
I'd like focus-follows-mouse (autoraise) with XQuartz windows (for X-Forwarding purposes).
I'm using a small app posted on SO on this thread and it works OK for regular apps (which run under Quartz, ...
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XQuartz problem on OS 10.12.1
I In stalled Xquartz from here, but when trying to start it from the command line via
/opt/X11/bin/Xquartz
I get an error:
> /opt/X11/bin/Xquartz
dyld: Symbol not found: ...
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xemacs: Bad CPU type in executable
OK. So I worked around this error:
/sw/bin/xemacs: Bad CPU type in executable.
but I don't understand why what I did worked and am curious. All I did was replace /sw with what should have been an ...
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X11/XQuartz problem on 10.8.2
On my Snow Leopard iMac, X11 is broken. I get:
dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_DGifGetLine Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ImageIO....
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Windowing system on El Capitan, and XQuartz
I've just installed XQuartz on my Macbook Pro Retina 13" which runs El Capitan, because a development tool I'm using required me to do so. I know that XQuartz is (kind of) like the new X11, supported ...
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How to make MacOS Catalina to receive incoming X connections (without ssh tunnels)
I am trying to make my MacOS Catalina to receive incoming X conncetions. I have installed XQuartz, then I have issued xhost +. Then on my linux box I set export DISPLAY=my.macos.ip.address:0.0.
But ...
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How does a program modify /usr but I am unable to even with admin privileges?
I have just installed latest Xquartz and FSL imaging software. I noticed that there is a new symbolic link in /usr (i.e. /usr/X11R6) to /opt/X11. My understanding was that only Apple software could ...
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Xquartz on Mavericks 10.9 fails
There is an issue with running xquartz on my system. I installed it by using the link from the Apple website. However when I run xquartz from terminal I get:
:~$ xquartz
/Applications/Utilities/...
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gnuplot warning: "plotting with an unknown terminal"
I'm trying to use gnuplot on my MacBook Air (Mac OS X 10.11.3).
I have installed XQuartz by using homebrew after I installed gnuplot (with this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR-...
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Using XQuartz for communicating to the Centos server using local graphical user interface
I wonder how to use XQuartz to communicate with the Centos server through a local graphical user interface on my Mac? I did the following steps so far, and the result so far is just connect to the ...
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no key repeat in Xquartz (x11)
I don't think I've used x11 since switching to Mountain Lion (and thus Xquartz). I recently tried to use it and my key repeat isn't working. When I press a key, it inserts the corresponding ...
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How to make XQuartz listen to port 6000?
I have installed XQuartz 2.8.1 onto macOS Catalina 10.15.4. Now I can use
ssh -X myremotehost
and do
xcalc &
there.
But the -X option appears to work too slow. I am using a LAN and would like to ...
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Preventing ssh command from opening xquartz on every login
Whenever I use ssh, after I type the password, xQuartz pop ups in the dock. It is a similar question to preventing ssh command from opening xquartz on every session, but in my case, I want X ...
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shell directory access
I recently upgraded to Catalina. I'm a bit of an old school Unix user, and I tend to use XQuartz/xterm/ksh.
Now that there are access controls everywhere, is there an easy way to add access to ...
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X11 apps have stopped working
I had been using gnuplot and nedit on my iMac running High Sierra. About 2 months ago they both stopped working. When I try to plot with Gnuplot i get the following error message:
gnuplot: unable to ...
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How to specify path to libX11.6.dylib for XQuartz?
I'm trying to run Wine with x11 driver (because some apps only work with x11 driver). I had installed XQuartz and it works and runs xterm.
However, when I run Wine, it outputs:
err:x11drv:...
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How to run `xterm` without getting a “Can't open display” error message?
On OS X 10.9.2 with XQuartz installed, I get the following message whenever I try to launch an xterm from Terminal.app:
$ xterm
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
How can I run xterm properly?...
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Cabal won't configure X11 in Mountain Lion
I need to run cabal install X11 >=1.5.0.0 && <1.6
But it fails when configuring:
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring X11-1.5.0.1...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-...
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Installing Xmonad on Mountain Lion?
I'm following this tutorial http://sourcematters.org/2012/06/27/xmonad-on-os-x-lion.html to install Xmonoad on OS X through Xquartz.
When installing some of Xmonad's dependencies through cabal, cabal ...
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XQuartz, utf-8 and filenames
This is a question in the continuation of this one:
UTF8 filenames and shell utilities:
the nightmare of utf-8 and filenames is….
How to avoid this confusion with most notably the ls command on ...
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SSH remote using XQuartz dosent work in Lion
I was using previous version of Mac and used to connected to a server with SSH console.It used to run X 11 after loading my requested programs(Mathematica) on remote server and was working properly....
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XQuartz does not work correctly
I have got a problem with XQuartz. We are running a server on which we installed an application which runs via Wine. If I start the application via Linux it works perfect.
But with my Macbook (OS X ...
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Wireshark pane couldn't display
I installed Wireshark Version 2.0.0 on OSX 10.11 with XQuartz 2.7.8
But it doesn't display any pane, I don't know what happened...
Any suggestions?
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X11 Mouse Acceleration setting
X11 that I am using (XQuartz 2.7.5 (xorg-server 1.14.4)) with Yosemite has very high acceleration with the mouse (external or trackpad). Is there a way to lower the acceleration or remove it all ...
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ssh -X without/with using xquartz
I would like to know if OSX supports ssh -X right out of the box?
Using the command launches XQuartz and interestingly both are NOT working:
e.g. displaying pdf files returning :
evince foo.pdf
**...
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