Hi,

Thanks for the detailed report and sorry for the trouble. My answers below.

On 2008-February-24 , at 17:05 , Stuart Edwards wrote:

Reboot Activate Inkscape Inkscape menu appears but no windows; X11 is not activated

console messages are:

2/24/08 9:59:29 AM [0x0-0x1a01a].org.inkscape.Inkscape[224] 2008-02-24 09:59:29.816 defaults[245:10b] 2/24/08 9:59:29 AM [0x0-0x1a01a].org.inkscape.Inkscape[224] The domain/ default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleAquaColorVariant) does not exist 2/24/08 9:59:29 AM defaults[246] The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleHighlightColor) does not exist 2/24/08 9:59:30 AM [0x0-0x1a01a].org.inkscape.Inkscape[224] 2008-02-24 09:59:29.922 defaults[246:10b] 2/24/08 9:59:30 AM [0x0-0x1a01a].org.inkscape.Inkscape[224] The domain/ default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleHighlightColor) does not exist

These are known and fixed in the latest versions (but there may not be a build yet, can't remember when I did the last one). To work around it you can open System prefs, change the appearance settings and it will generate those two keys in the preferences. You can then switch back to your previous settings (but in the meantime do yourself a favor and switch to graphite and grey highlighting ;) )

Activate X11 (this is X11.app at /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/ Contents/MacOS/X11 ) xterm window opens

Activate Inkscape Inkscape menu appears but no X11 windows

Console messages similar with a couple of additions, then the Activity Monitor goes a little crazy: [...] 2/24/08 10:10:26 AM Activity Monitor[271] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (24) beyond bounds (24) 2/24/08 10:10:46 AM Activity Monitor[271] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (24) beyond bounds (24) 2/24/08 10:10:46 AM Activity Monitor[271] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (24) beyond bounds (24) 2/24/08 10:10:46 AM Activity Monitor[271] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (24) beyond bounds (24) etc, once per second

These I don't know about. They are Activity Monitor messages so I guess there something wrong there. Do you notice it only with Inkscape? My guess is that this is just a display problem since a process was suppressed outside of activity monitor, while it was running.

Quit Inkscape and console says:

2/24/08 10:17:12 AM [0x0-0x23023].org.inkscape.Inkscape[367] Platypus App: PID 368 killed brutally 2/24/08 10:17:12 AM com.apple.launchd[84] ([0x0-0x23023].org.inkscape.Inkscape[367]) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 368 PPID 1 inkscape-bin

this is normal behavior when you force-quit inkscape.

Quit Activity Monitor

Try to activate Inkscape and X11 several times - same results. Inkscape did actually fire up a couple of days ago, but seemed to freeze a lot on file management tasks. Unfortunately I can't recreate that today.

Strange. The unknown keypairs are just for the gtk theme, Inkscape should start without it and just use the default. No clue at this point.

Go back to 0.45 Activate Inkscape (X11 is open) Inkscape window opens I usually have to have X11 open in order for Inkscape to find it -- been using it this way most of the time. 'Failed to start X11' screen is presented otherwise.

0.45 or 0.45.1? 0.45.1 universal was fixed to work on leopard and according to the new behavior of X11, 0.45 was not.

Console messages are:

2/24/08 10:22:28 AM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[685] / Applications/Inkscape/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script: line 17: open-x11: command not found 2/24/08 10:22:28 AM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[685] Unable to find application named 'XDarwin'

↑↑ This is probably 0.45 and not 0.45.1

2/24/08 10:22:31 AM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[685] (inkscape- bin:686): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. 2/24/08 10:22:31 AM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[685] Using the fallback 'C' locale.

This is OK.

2/24/08 10:22:32 AM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[685] ** (inkscape-bin:686): WARNING **: Unknown verb name: FullScreen

This is just a warning but we are having it a lot. This is related to the new version of X11 but I don't know where it comes from on Inkscape's side.

2/24/08 10:22:34 AM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[685] (inkscape- bin:686): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 85 2/24/08 10:22:34 AM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[685] (inkscape- bin:686): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 85 2/24/08 10:22:34 AM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.inkscape.Inkscape[685] (inkscape- bin:686): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 85

These are regular warnings too.

This may shed some light on the X11 problem

The X11 problem is the following: on Panther+Tiger X11 must be started to run X11 applications so we started it manually in Inkscape launcher, on Leopard, X11 is automatically launched when an applications queries the DISPLAY variable (and X11 thing). So we just had to surround the code which started X11 in the launcher by an if condition ( if version is < 10.5 then start X11, else just skip it ). This has been included in all recent devel versions of Inkscape (all those compiled on Leopard at least) and has been "backported" to 0.45.1. So all those should work on Leopard. In the devel version the gtk theme was added and this leads to problems when the default Aqua appearance was never changed. I knew about it last week or so, and fixed it. But in any case, it should just start with an ugly theme.

So my advice: - do the appearance thing - get the lastest build for leopard. It is kind of a pre-release build so it has many bugs squashed out, better font support and python support for extensions is included (hence the size of the download) http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-17373-10.5-i386.dmg - get the latest X11 from Xquartz (*much* better than the default one on Leopard, and kind of official) http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.4 With those, everything should be fine. If it is not, then let us know.

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