Well, it would be nice to try inkscape on the same user where all my other stuff is - I may have dismissed it too quickly. So I tried running XQuartz in my original user, not the other one where everything works, and in the Console App window saw this immediately afterwards: 11/7/11 9:55:23 PM [0x0-...

Hi, I followed your advice(s): I downloaded the latest xquartz from macosforge.org (I believe it was 2.70, for snow leopard) I logged into a different MAC user I started xquartz - to my amazement it did what you said it would - it appeared on the dock (yeah that's the name) and opened a little termi...

Thanks again for your reply! I replied already but it hasn't been approved yet. Meanwhile I rebooted and double-clicked X11 and nothing happened. How can I tell if it's running? On a PC (like at work) you can check all running applications and processes. Is there something similar on the Mac? It loo...

Hi, Thanks for your reply! I found X11.app in Utilities as you said and double-clicked it. Nothing happened. If I reboot that will kill hanging/running instances of X11 and inkscape. How when I come back will I know if X11 is running? I'm going to reboot and check back in here. Thanks again! Regards...

Hi, I just downloaded inkscape for snow leopard, which I have (I think the inkscape web page said there were no issues WRT Quartz etc. when loading the snow leopard version to snow leopard. When I run the app I get a menu that has nothing but one item: Inkscape, and it has no useful options. No scre...