On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Alberto Simões wrote:
I'm trying to run Inkscape 0.43 for Mac OS X (the latest version available on the website) but it is not running at all. If I am not wrong, problems began with Mac OS X update for 10.4.4.
Well, the first time I opened each X11 application after the upgrade to 10.4.4, they took a long time to start (maybe 1 minute on a recent PowerBook). This is due to OS X redoing the prebinding for the executable.*
If the dock shows inkscape to be running but you see nothing, then this is probably what is happening. Wait longer and it will start quickly after the first time.
If the dock shows it to not be running then it has probably crashed. In this case run /Applications/Utilities/Console and look for any error messages that could explain the crash.
Cheers, Michael
* Prebinding (from wikipedia): It is a process that essentially boils down to looking up memory offsets of symbols in libraries that the program is using before the program is launched, and storing this information ahead-of-time, so that it does not have to be done repeatedly on each launch of the application.