Comments on: How to use The Gimp in OS X 10.5 Leopard

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By: Marnen Laibow-Koser

Marnen Laibow-Koser — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:00:54 +0000

X11 GIMP is not acceptable for anything involving advanced typographical features: although Mac fonts can be converted to X fonts, the advanced features do not survive the conversion process.

I’ll happily use almost any other kind of application on the X11 side, but anything involving typography has to be useable on Aqua.

By: Muggie

Muggie — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:07:51 +0000

I found a complete fix to the issue. Download and install the latest XQuartz. It is a community based implementation of X11 that resolves this entire issue of Gimp not talking to the X11 in Leopard. I found this fix through Inkscape.org another X11 app. xquartz is currently up to 2.2.3. GIMP worked immediately and Inkscape needed another minor tweak to get it working that also stopped the XTerm window from appearing which I find annoying, in Inkscape it is worse as it never loaded without the fix.
In Terminal type the following with an Enter after:
mkdir ~/. fontconfig

xquartz can be found at: xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki

By: jack linguini

jack linguini — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:12:14 +0000

I have installed the aqua-gimp from mac-ports
in order to get printing to work. On my other
builds of gimp 2.4x on Leopard X11 the printers
were not showing up in the printing dialog.

If I feel really ambitious I’ll install the
other version of gimp from macports.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:31:07 +0000

This really is a great workaround for Leopard! I’ve been so used to using GIMP without any trouble, that I had just assumed GIMP and Leopard would play nice – big mistake.

This workaround saved me during a crunch to finish a project – thanks again!

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:46:09 +0000

I am really suprised, that someone prefers the Aqua Version over the X11 version. X11 is much more stable and great stuff like drag an drop works.

I just did AquaGimp as a Test. But i will try a new version in the next weeks

By: Mike Bowie

Mike Bowie — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:18:39 +0000

Thank you Ross for your quick reply. The XDarwin link looks too geeky for me. I used to be a Windows man & fiddled far too much (the OS invites tinkering) & while I learnt a lot I caused myself much grief. As a relatively newbe to the Mac I would rather not start experimenting with this OS – at least at this stage. I think I’d best wait for a version of Gimp I can download & use straight off. If you hear anything I’d be very grateful to know. Cheers & God bless.

By: Mike Bowie

Mike Bowie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:22:09 +0000

Thank you for a helpful site, Ross. You mention the Intel Mac. I am running an iMac G4 Power PC (the last of the beautiful pod design). Leopard has just been installed & I am desperate to find an alternative to Photoshop. Gimp sounds ideal. So if you know, or you know of someone else who might be able to solve my dilemma, I’d be eternally grateful. As with all of us: I just want to be able to work productfully without hassels – life has enough of those nasties already! Thanking you in anticipation. Sincerely, Mike.