


However, you may wish to uninstall and then reinstall the same version of XQuartz if you believe the current installation may be corrupted (for example, corruption caused by operating system migration). Upgrading to a newer version of XQuartz doesn't seem to require that you first manually uninstall the older version of XQuartz.
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If you are unfamiliar with or uncomfortable working with “sudo” or commands like below, please contact your system administrator or a Mac OS X expert for further assistance. Warning: The following instructions and the use of "sudo" can affect system level files and system services and cause damage to your operating system if not done properly. If this might be the case, uninstallation/reinstallation of XQuartz help to may fix the problem. If logging out/in does not fix the problem, and if the user has migrated their XQuartz installation from an older version of the operating system or from a different machine, it is possible that the XQuartz installation has become corrupted or is no longer properly configured because of the operating system migration or upgrade. If a user has just installed XQuartz on their Mac OS X system, the problem may be as simple as logging out and then logging back in again, or even rebooting the system, to allow XQuartz to finalize its configuration. Source /Application/exelis/idl84/bin/idl_setup.bash Source /Application/exelis/envi52/bin/envi_setup.bash For example, for ENVI+IDL 5.2 (from a Bash shell): Some IDL and ENVI users on Mac OS X (10.7 or later) have reported that X11 fails to launch automatically when IDL or ENVI is started by double clicking on the application launch icon.ġ.) X11/XQuartz configuration is not completeġ.) X11/XQuartz configuration is not complete:Īn indication that this might be the problem is to try the following:įirst launch XQuartz/X11 and then from an X11 Terminal window (not an Apple Terminal window) launch ENVI or IDL.
