[xcrysden] More on: Installation of XCrySDen under Mac OSX snow leopard

[David M. Wood]

Please see:

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/423

for the origins of problems I mentioned with XQuartz 2.5.2.  These give rise to errors of the sort

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  147 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request:  566
  Current serial number in output stream:  566

The PRELIMINARY patched bins (for Leopard AND Snow Leopard), to which there are links at the bottom of the page mentioned, should be placed in

/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS

renamed to X11.bin, then made executable via chmod a+x *.bin

and you can then use XQuartz with XCD 1.5.21

The damnably flickering [a stead re-update? hardware acceleration?] with XCD display contents persists, alas.

David M. Wood
dmwood at Mines.EDU