Re: problem with `display' from ImageMagick

Michèle Garoche wrote:
> 
> Le 29 août 2006 à 13:31, Joerg van den Hoff a écrit :
> 
>> Michèle Garoche wrote:
>>> Le 28 août 2006 à 16:45, Joerg van den Hoff a écrit :
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> after upgrading `ImageMagick' today
>>>>
>>>> the `display' command responds to arbitrary input by displaying it's 
>>>> help list and exits afterwards. `display' without argument does the 
>>>> same instead of bringing up the "splash screen wizard".
>>>>
>>>> `convert' on the other hand still works.
>>>>
>>>> any ideas?
>>> Assuming you use ImageMagick 6.2.8:
>>> 1 - Copy the file /opt/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.8/images/logo.jpg in 
>>> say home/Pictures or wherever is convenient to you; for example, in a 
>>> Terminal Window type:
>>> cp  /sw/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.8/images/logo.jpg ~/Pictures/
>>> 2 - In the Apple X11 menu (if you use it), type:
>>> display ~/Pictures/logo.png
>>> or make a script (bash, applescript, what you want) to launch display 
>>> with this icon.
>>> The key here is that ImageMagick wants an image at launch time, so 
>>> use any image you want, and then click on the window to get the menus.
>> thanks, but I probably did not explain clearly enough what's happening:
>>
>> both,
>>
>> `display' and `display {some_image_or_other}'
>>
>> do not work. in both cases, I only get the help text in the terminal 
>> as if I had issued `display -help'. `display -version' seems the only 
>> thing which reacts as expected, displaying only the version number, 
>> not the help text. this is version 6.2.7.5 as available at the moment 
>> via DarwinPorts and MacOS 10.4.7. on a G5
>>
>> in all previous versions (including 6.1.8 which as a work around I 
>> installed via `fink' after having the described problem)
>>
>> `display' brings immediately up the splash screen (logo.jpg) and
>> `display {some_image}' does just that (as it should :-)).
> Oh, sorry, I did not read it correctly. I did have this behaviour around 
> June with the without x option.
> Maybe the with x variant works in DarwinPorts?
> 
> 
> 
>
yes, that was it (some other helpful sould hinted me at this explanation 
off-list). not a good default behaviour (without x11), for a package 
containing a `display' utility, I'd say :-).

joerg