[Radiance-general] X 11 trouble with OS X

[Mark Stock]

If it means anything, my DISPLAY variable is set to:

/tmp/launch-fitdx8/:0

Mark

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Dave Bosworth wrote:

> Hello -
>
> I have been trying to get Radiance loaded to my OS X system (v. 10.4.11).  I am new to UNIX, so the process has been a bit rocky - but - makeall install and makeall library worked out (mostly) fine, and I changed the /etc/profile file to include RAYPATH, and everything seemed to be working fine.  Commands like genprism work and the .oct file built OK.  However, when I went to run rview I get this error:
>
> rview: cannot open X-windows; DISPLAY variable set?
> rview: fatal - cannot initialize x11
>
> I have tried setting DISPLAY=0 and no effect.  I even went so far as to write this little ditty into  /etc/profile on  the advice of a radiance-general user:
>
> if [ -z "${DISPLAY}" ];then echo -n
> export DISPLAY=':0'
> fi
>
> also, no luck.  So, now I am begging the wisdom of more advanced users.
>
> any advice?
>
> thanks a million
>
> Dave
>
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