[Xastir] Running Xastir

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:11:47PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <wa0tjt at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> This is what I get when I try to run Xastir.
> 
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "/tmp/ 
> launch-oGaTEH/:0".
> Warning: Fatal Error:
> _XmGetDefaultDisplay cannot be used prior to VendorS.Initialize,  
> returns NULL
> Error: Couldn't find per display information

Did you update xlib in any way?

A recent change to Xorg on Linux and BSD systems generated the extremely 
annoying and completely harmless "Generic Event Extension missing" warnings.
It is a clash between a version of Xlib that looks for that extension and
an X server that doesn't have it --- but that warning means nothing and
has to be ignored.

The stuff after that is another matter.

> 
> What did I do now to break my system?
> 
> This is on Mac OS X trying to run Xastir v1.9.5 and I've had it  
> running before I just wanted to switch from motif to lesstif.

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