Use Xquartz instead; it's much more up-to-date and has a lot of fixes for broken X11 on OS X: http://xquartz.macosforge.org You'll need to set explicit include and library paths, reconfigure and recompile Wine: Code: export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/X11/include" export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/X11/lib" ./configure make