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Open documents in X11 apps from the Finder Apps
There's a thread in the macosxhints forums discussing a way of opening a document in an X11 application by simply double-clicking on it in the Finder. The following is taken from the forum, as written by the author of the solution:
Problem solved!
Well here is a solution to the problem, maybe not the best one but it WORKS and you can double-click documents associated with an X11 application and have them open!
The solution is a program called XL. XL can open, by default, documents with .ps, .xpm, .tex, and .lyx extensions, but you can (taken from the info on the site) "map any document type to any application by simply double-clicking on the XL icon and selecting preferences from the XL menu."

This is free (email-ware) alpha-level software, but it works. There are some glitches (such as launching multiple occurrences of an X11 app for each document double-clicked), but it's about the only thing I've seen that allows a Finder double-click to open a document in an X11 application.
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Opening files in an already running gimp
Authored by: Bishop on Sep 28, '02 10:15:59AM
As talked about on the XonX forums there actually is a way of having files open in an already running gimp, do a 'man gimp-remote'. It should be an easy thing to change this in XL. The problem is that if gimp isn't running this will fail to open the image file (or at least I think so). About other applications such as gv I'm not sure if there is a way but the one open application per file is actually what happens in "normal" X11 environments also.

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solution
Authored by: Bishop on Sep 29, '02 06:21:29AM

As pointed out by Michel Galle

"if you use gimp-remote -n it will launch gimp if you have no gimp actually launched."



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Open documents in X11 apps from the Finder
Authored by: krishna on Feb 05, '04 11:57:54PM

Also check out 'lyx/aqua', a OSX-native port of LyX. I used it to generate lots of business-style letters, and they came out very nicely. It also starts up in under five seconds, unlike OpenOffice.



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