[OS X TeX] X11 and gs

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Dec 27, 2020, at 9:38 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> On Dec 27, 2020, at 9:22 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I’m confused by the following sentence in the “Running Natively” section of http://www.tug.org/mactex/aboutarm.html :
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>> 	"Users who installed X11 on Arm before installing Ghostscript-9.53 
>> 	will run Intel Ghostscript Intel code rather than Ghostscript Arm code.”
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>> How does one get X11 on a MacBook Air M1 (running Big Sur)?
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> Howdy,
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> Not having an M1 Mac I can't guarantee this but install XQuartz.
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> Good Luck,
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> Herb Schulz
> herbs at wideopenwest.com

Howdy,

I do know that XQuartz runs under Big Sur on Intel systems. I would suspect it also runs on ARM system using Rosetta2. Here's a link: <https://www.xquartz.org/index.html>.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com