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Mac OS Snow Leopard tksurfer display problem

The X11 that is installed with Snow Leopard seems to cause display problems in tksurfer. Specifically, the display looks like a 256 color image, like this:

The fix for this is to install the latest XQuartz, v2.6.0 or later, for Snow Leopard. Prior to doing that, the existing X11 install should be removed. Open a Terminal and type:

sudo rm -rf /usr/X11* /System/Library/Launch*/org.x.* /Applications/Utilities/X11.app /etc/*paths.d/X11
sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.X11DocumentationLeo
sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.X11User
sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.X11SDKLeo
sudo pkgutil --forget org.x.X11.pkg

Now, get XQuartz for Snow Leopard. Once you've downloaded and installed the dmg file, it will be installed in the /opt/X11 directory. So to complete the installation, open a Terminal and type:

cd /usr
sudo ln -s /opt/X11

Now tksurfer should display surfaces properly. However, there is one step to perform, as the first time you try tksurfer, it will seem to hang. You need to goto Application->Utilities and open XQuartz. Upon opening, then tksurfer should finish opening. After this one time, then tksurfer seems to open correctly from the Terminal after that.

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-The fix for this is to install the latest XQuartz, v2.6.0 or later, for Snow Leopard.  Prior to doing that, the existing X11 install should be moved, so that you can revert to it if needed, open a Terminal and type:
+The fix for this is to install the latest XQuartz, v2.6.0 or later, for Snow Leopard.  Prior to doing that, the existing X11 install should be removed. Open a Terminal and type:
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-cd /usr

sudo mv X11 X11-old
+sudo rm -rf /usr/X11* /System/Library/Launch*/org.x.* /Applications/Utilities/X11.app /etc/*paths.d/X11

sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.X11DocumentationLeo

sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.X11User

sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.X11SDKLeo

sudo pkgutil --forget org.x.X11.pkg
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-Now tksurfer should display surfaces properly.
+Now tksurfer should display surfaces properly.  However, there is one step to perform, as the first time you try tksurfer, it will seem to hang.  You need to goto Application->Utilities and open XQuartz.  Upon opening, then tksurfer should finish opening.  After this one time, then tksurfer seems to open correctly from the Terminal after that.