[mcclim-devel] Problems with McClim demo

[Mike McDonald]

>To: mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net
>Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:57:58 +0100
>From: "Willem Broekema"
>
>On 11/12/06, Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cantab.net> wrote
>> Make sure that you can connect to your X server: if you can't do that,
>> there's not a lot that any McCLIM code can do about it.
>
>FWIW, I'm on Mac OS X (Intel), and today's CVS code works for me (ACL 8.0).
>I got rid of the "no protocol specified" error by doing "xhost +".
>
>Damien, if after xhost it still does not work: can you start an X app
>like xcalc in an Emacs shell? (At least that's what I use to determine
>if the problem is on the X or Lisp side...)

  One of the more recent updates to the Intenl version of OSX turns
off TCP connections to the X server. You may need to use the command
"defaults" to turn it back on. Then use the 'xhost +' command every
time you start X and want to run McCLIM.

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac at mikemac.com