====== Running the Gimp in MacOS X Leopard ======

Several days ago, I finally could not resist it any longer -- I bought an iMac. After having overcome the first shock regarding the obscene price of this device((in the USA the 20" configuration I bought costs about 1500 US-$, in Europe you have to spend amazing 1450€, which currently means 2283.46 US-$! I have no idea how this can be ...)), I am really loving to work with MacOS X.

Even more so after I found out that, by using [[http://www.macports.org|MacPorts]], I can install a great part of my beloved Linux applications.

I also installed the Gimp that way (although I found out later that there's a complete package to be found here: http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net). The only problem with the Gimp version from MacPorts was that somehow it required me to start X11 manually before running it -- while for all other X11 software, it seems to launch automatically.

After some tinkering, I found the problem to be the start script of the Gimp, provided by MacPorts. I guess it makes some stuff that is no longer necessary in Leopard; especially trying to run "open-x11", which is not present in Leopard (at least no on my system). But it's fixed easily by editing the file ''/Applications/MacPorts/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/script'' and deleting (or commenting out) all lines except the following:

<code bash>
#!/bin/sh

CWD="/opt/local"
cd ~/
exec "$CWD/bin/gimp" "$@"
</code>

Now it works just fine: X11 is starting right before the Gimp.