[Radiance-general] X11 support on OSX 10.11?! (?!(?!))

[Stephen Wasilewski]

This may be too simple to mention, but since I've done this to myself
before...

Is Xquartz running?

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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Guglielmetti, Robert <
Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov> wrote:

> Hey there, Radiance people. I'm setting up my work computer again, having
> just re-imaged it to MacOSX 10.11 (yes, 10.12 is (has been) around; don't
> ask). Built Radiance from source, all is well. Rvu works fine with the Qt
> driver. Realized I hadn't installed x11 yet. Installed x11 (xquartz), but
> my installation is now defaulting to the Qt driver for rvu output. Problem
> is, even forcing it to use x11 is failing with the dreaded "rvu: fatal -
> cannot start device "x11"" error. Look:
>
> $ rvu frozen_octree.oct
> (this works, loading the Qt-based rvu)
>
> $ rvu -o qt frozen_octree.oct
> (this works, as above)
>
> But...
>
> $ rvu -o x11 frozen_octree.oct
> rvu: x11: not found
> rvu: fatal - cannot start device "x11"
>
> The x11 device is in fact running and mapped to $DISPLAY. Look:
>
> echo $DISPLAY
> /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.2YPu12VOpL/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
>
> So, WTF? Anyone?
>
> - Rob
>
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