<div>hi, </div><div><br></div><div>I've got a MacBook Pro (intel) and am running OS 10.5.8 and need NCL/NCAR Graphics to generate weather maps for a paper (revisions due next month).</div><div><br></div><div>am following the environment configuring instructions on</div>
<div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/get_started.shtml#SetUpEnvironment">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/get_started.shtml#SetUpEnvironment</a></div><div><br></div><div>and have discovered that a semi-dysfunctional X11 ... here are the symptoms:</div>
<div><ol><li>when I click on the X11 icon, the icon bounces for a while and <b>top</b> indicates two X11.bin running, then the icon stops bouncing, X11 doesn't open, and <b>top</b> still continues to indicate two X11.bin running </li>
<li>both .bashrc and .bash_profile contain <b>export DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY={IP}:0.0; export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0</b></li><li>Matlab can open X11, however (and <b>top</b> indicates that X11.bin and Xquartz and quartz-wm & xinit are running)</li>
<li>I am unable to open an X11 XTerm, even in Matlab's X11 (although <b>top</b> indicates their presence) </li><li>The 'About X11' GUI indicates that Matlab is opening XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)</li>
<li>when I go poking around I find that I actually have two versions of X </li><li>the old version (X11R6) is softlinked to the new version (XQuartz)</li><li>when I type <b>open /usr/X11R6/bin/X</b> or <b>open /usr/X11/bin/X</b> it hangs with '/usr/X11/bin/Xquartz ; exit;' and <b>top</b> indicates that X11.bin is running but I am unable to access it </li>
</ol></div><div><div>questions are:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) am i having a problem with the DISPLAY variable?</div><div>when i invoke <b>host {drivename}</b> I get 2 IP addresses and 2 unknowns & neither IP matches the one indicated by the GUI in System Preferences, which is the one I used (I tried all 3). it would seem that my Mac is having an identity crisis of sorts.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(2) should I install a newer version of XQuartz or will that mean I can't use Matlab either? No plotting for me!?!</div><div><a href="http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.5.2">http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.5.2</a></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>will be profoundly appreciative of any assistance</div><div>kirstie</div>