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To bring fontforge’s windows to the font, click the XQuartz icon, or use Alt+Tab to switch to it. When you run FontForge, its dock icon will disappear after it is launched, because it is controlled by XQuartz. Next time, it will open fast and in any typical way: double clicking it, drag it to the dock, using Launcher, Spotlight or Quicksilver… Tips Find XQuartz in Applications/Utilities and click OKīe patient while it runs a first-time setup processįontForge will create a new font and show you its glyphs in a table: Where is X11?” with a sort of Finder window. You may see a dialog box saying “Choose Application. Right Click (or hold the Command key and click once) and choose Open from the menu, and confirm you want to open the app Open it and move the FontForge.app file to /Applications - do not move it anywhere else

FontForge will start XQuartz automatically for you next time.įor users of OS X 10.10 and later, download and install FontForge įor users of OS X 10.09, download and install FontForge Just this first time, start XQuartz from Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app, go to the X11 menu, Preferences, Input, and turn off the Enable keyboard shortcuts under X11 or Enable key equivalents under X11 preference item. Log out and log back in to ensure it works correctly

If you don’t have it then download and install: direct link to XQuartz-2.8.1.dmg Open Finder and look in your /Applications/Utilities/ folder for the XQuartz app. Without XQuartz, FontForge will open a Dock icon but not load any further.