I down loaded gimp on to my mac. It won't work, says I need x11? What is x11?

Question

apple x11? What is it and why do I need it, what does it do? Help. I down loaded it but I still could't figure out how to get gimp to stop limping.

Answer 1

X11 is the windowing system used by Linux, which GIMP was originally developed for. OS X uses a completely different windowing system (Quartz Compositor), so Apple decided to include an X11 port so you can run applications written for other Unix-based operating systems like Linux.



It comes on the installation disc as an optional install, but you can just download the newest version here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases



Apple bundles this in their security updates and OS upgrades (i.e. when you upgrade from 10.5.1 to 10.5.2), but the X11 updates only get installed if you already have X11 on your machine. Apple's version also generally lags a little behind the newest version for the sake of stability, so you'll have to reinstall the newest version after each security update or OS upgrade if you want to keep X11 up to date. It would be a good idea to save the installer for the newest version somewhere so you have it when you need it.

Answer 2

acquire X11. it is an ecosystem that helps you to run utility like those from Linux (ie Gimp, information reveal Debugger and stuff like that). Mac OS X comes with X11. in case you haven't any longer have been given it, attempt installation developer procedures.

Answer 3

X11 refers to X-Windows... the GUI that was developed in UNIX, and is used in Linux.



Since you have the error on a Mac, there is something wrong with the configuration of gimp and OS X

Answer 4

X11 is a Unix application that you'll need to run some apps, like the GIMP or OpenOffice, on your Mac. You can find the installer file on your Mac OS installation disk.

Answer 5

The X Window System (commonly X or X11) is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for networked computers. It implements the X display protocol (invented by Hewlett Packard)[citation needed] and provides windowing on raster graphics (bitmap) computer displays and manages keyboard and pointing device control functions. In its standard distribution, it is a complete, albeit simple, display and human interface solution, but also delivers a standard toolkit and protocol stack for building graphical user interfaces on most Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS, and has been ported to many other contemporary general purpose operating systems. Most modern GUIs developed for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, such as GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, use the X Window System as a foundation.



X provides the basic framework, or primitives, for building such GUI environments: drawing and moving windows on the screen and interacting with a mouse and/or keyboard. X does not mandate the user interface — individual client programs handle this. As such, the visual styling of X-based environments varies greatly; different programs may present radically different interfaces. X is built as an additional application layer on top of the operating system kernel.



Unlike previous display protocols, X was specifically designed to be used over network connections rather than on an integral or attached display device. X features network transparency: the machine where an application program (the client application) runs can differ from the user's local machine (the display server).



go to versiontracker.com and it will tell u how to download it.