ImageMagick tomfoolery

[Iritscen]

I had originally set those variables, I think, but since then I've "moved" ImageMagick by uninstalling the old binaries and using the ones in my Applications folder. So I need to reset those variables. Thanks for pointing that out, it may solve the problem.

[Iritscen]

Okay, it finds the libraries now, but it still says "Can't start 'X' server" when I try to run an ImageMagick binary.

Is it failing to find the X11 app or something?

[nixgeek]

It's possible. Have you manually launched the X server before running ImageMagick as a test?

[Iritscen]

If by "X server" you mean X11.app, then yes.

If you mean something else, then no. :o)

I was researching the "X server" from the command line, and noticed a couple commands -- I'm not there now, but I think one was "xdm", and the other was "open-x11", which supposedly can be passed a binary to run in the X11 environment. I wasn't sure exactly what to do with xdm, as the man page assumes you already know what you're doing, and open-x11 doesn't even know what command I'm talking about when I say "open-x11 display".

[nixgeek]

I should have been a little clearer on that. I did mean "X11."

Xdm is the X11 Login Manager. Here's what it looks like on a Debian system:

http://www.ellak.gr/pub/OpenGuides/D...chap07/xdm.png

As for "open-x11", see this:

http://www.hmug.org/man/1/open-x11.php

[Iritscen]

Ah, that login screen is familiar, I called up a variant called XFree86 on my Mac. It wanted me to login, so I entered my OS X username and password for lack of anything else and it refused to recognize me. I had a heck of a time closing it.

I've read that man page to open-x11, but it either doesn't work with ImageMagick commands or I failed to pass it "display" properly. However, that site you linked me to has some impressive information on it. They have the latest version of ImageMagick, which may or may not work better, and *all* the dependencies are listed and available for download on the site: http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/X/Ap...cs/ImageMagick. Pretty cool. I'm going to use these copies of the software and see how it works. I always knew I was missing some of the dependencies anyway.

[Iritscen]

Well, I think I downloaded half the Internet and installed it over the last week. That may be a slight exaggeration, but it feels like it.

I installed a ton of dependencies I didn't have before, and it seems to have cleared up nearly all the problems that ImageMagick reports when it tests itself. I still have to install a couple more libraries, but it's already reporting that it's 99% fine.

But, it still says "Can't open 'X' server."



Clearly there's a broken link somewhere.

[nixgeek]

I applaud you for your patience through all of this. Man, I would have quit days ...WEEKS ago. I think you deserve my mahogany bicycle clip.

Hopefully once you clear out the remaining 1% of deps you won't get that message anymore. I'm clearly at a loss for solutiions at this point.