Inkscape command-line is broken on Mac OS X
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
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Bug Description
Here's the software used :
- Snow Leopard 10.6.1
- Inkscape-
Inkscape runs fine out of the box. However, running it from the command-line doesn't parse any input parameters. Inkscape starts fine and all, but argv is completly ignored. Example from my terminal :
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[12:45 romain@Jack:~ 4149] % /Applications/
Warning: AppleCollationOrder setting not found, using AppleLocale.
Setting Language: fr_FR.UTF-8
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-
(inkscape-
was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
You can get a copy from:
http://
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And that's it. At that point Inkscape is running just fine on my desktop. However, the command-line parameters are just ignored. I tried with various possibilities (--help, a_file.svg, etc…). Always got the same behavior : Inkscape starts as if I hadn't specified any parameter
Actually I tested it with Inkscape 0.46 on Leopard (10.5.8), and there's exactly the same bug…