| Re: IDL 6.4.1 and X Windows with OS X 10.5.7 and ssh [message #66559 is a reply to message #66482] |
Thu, 21 May 2009 11:22   |
karo
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Registered: April 2005
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I am using ssh, OSX 10.5.7 and X11 2.3.3.2 without any problem.
Possibly the OSX upgrade has changed security features.
I am using ssh with options -X -Y!
Regards
Karsten
Am 21.05.09 19:24 schrieb "cakswenson@gmail.com" unter
<cakswenson@gmail.com> in
62a762ee-1fdb-41b6-92db-c6b70ebd9112@m17g2000vbi.googlegroups.com:
> On May 21, 12:39�pm, Christopher Thom <ct...@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>> Quoth cakswen...@gmail.com:
>>
>>> Like I said, I have XQuartz installed, I just didn't know if it could
>>> coexist with the original Apple X11.....For the record, IDL is using
>>> XQuartz (the XQuartz icon pops up when I use IDL when physically sitting
>>> at the computer) and I have the most recent version installed (installed
>>> after the update to 10.5.7). �I guess something could have been reset or
>>> modified during that update, maybe it isn't the apple update but rather
>>> the XQuartz update causing the problems. �Obviously X11 forwarding is
>>> still allowed otherwise I couldn't run xterm or xclock. �Could IDL be
>>> looking in the wrong place for X and that's why I can open X windows
>>> from the terminal but not from inside IDL? �I'm relatively new to IDL
>>> (only been using it for a couple of months) so I'm not sure how to
>>> investigate IDL specific problems.
>>
>> XQuartz must be reinstalled after every OSX system update. It does not
>> coexist, but replaces the official release. Also, the official X11 release
>> with OSX will overwrite any changes made by installing XQuartz.
>>
>> The official OSX release of X11 occasionally picks up changes from the
>> XQuartz project, but on a slower timeline...so an OSX system update will
>> sometimes *downgrade* your X11 system.
>>
>> cheers
>> chris
>
> I said that I updated the XQuartz after updating to 10.5.7, so
> anything that was 'downgraded' was subsequently upgraded.
>
> As a further note, if I ssh into my coworkers machine, which is
> running an older version of XQuartz, then IDL works fine. I'm going
> to try downgrading XQuartz and see what happens.
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