Path: csiph.com!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:57:45 +0000 From: ken Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: need help with x11 device Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:57:44 -0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ken@spamcop.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 221128-0, 28/11/2022), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 22 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-fOlo9izmvGRAKjuOSISvvYFym1YkXgFer4blIwg54ddPiaZl5ullzXcXWyzLRsRDzHhcXe7BqEXWODf!EgAne0Bv4tKVkQc8jMvTJOQAYGnuDS2XH0g1/1KXi5YioG7qJRvV/c3zXObH9syW/q0wWvTn0852!d8YYG0Q0JK/anNqEvw== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:3804 In article , rbmarmor@gmail.com says... > > in debian > gs version 10.00.0 > x11 device is not loaded > it seems it is seen, because strace gives: > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ghostscript/10.00.0/X11.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 > read(4, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 > but then, it is not diplayed in the devices' list. > Any idea? > thx If the x11 device isn't listed when you do gs --help then the binary has been built without X11 support. If you want X11 then you're going to have to build from source yourself, with the X development libraries available. Or bug the package maintainer about it; it's entirely possible there is a good reason why they built a Ghostscript package without X11 support.