[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Peter Teeson wrote:

> I have a G4 QuickSilver (2001) running Mac OS X 10.2.6.

Do you also have

	http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/download/

because...

>  I installed ethereal 0.9.13-1 using Fink Commander.
> In Terminal when I type ethereal (as suggested in the man page) all I 
> get is
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:.

...Ethereal is built atop GTK+-for-X11, so it requires X11.  "Cannot 
open display" is, perhaps, not the best message - I think XLib *can* 
give you a real reason, which it'd be nice of GTK+ to display - but the 
reason in this case might be "you don't have X11 installed".

At some point it might not require X11 on Mac OS X, either

	1) because the GTK+-for-Quartz people get it working well enough

or

	2) because a Cocoa or Carbon or Qt UI is written for it.

(My current inclinations are towards Qt, as that gives us a perhaps 
nicer Windows UI, and an X11-less Mac OS X UI, as well as much of the 
work towards a KDE UI, and at least some of the zEthereal Qtopia work.  
I've no idea when, if ever, I'll get to look at doing that, though.)