[fontforge-users] I can't get fontforge to work after upgrading to Yosemite

[Paul G. <pau...@gm...>]

After upgrading to Yosemite, Wine and FontForge wouldn’t work. 
I updated Xcode, and updated and cleaned Homebrew. 
Wine apps work now, but not FontForge.

I downloaded the newest version of FontForge from here:
https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/mac/ <https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/mac/>

When I run the app X11 opens, after a moment I see the FontForge splash screen, & the FontForge icon starts bouncing in the dock. The splash screen goes away, & after a few minutes the icon stops bouncing but nothing else happens, not even an X11 terminal window opens. If I right click the X11 icon in the dock I see that it is running Untitled1.sfd (ISO8859-1) but there’s no window open on the desktop. If I try this with the X11 preferences set to full screen, I get a solid black screen and nothing else.

I got frustrated and decided to Homebrew FontForge using :
brew install python gettext libpng jpeg libtiff giflib cairo pango libspiro czmq fontconfig automake libtool pkg-config glib pango brew install -v --debug fontforge --HEAD --with-giflib --with-x11 --with-libspiro
 but I have problems with that as well. 
When I run the command fontforge all I get is this:

bash-3.2$ fontforge
Copyright (c) 2000-2012 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012-D.
 Library based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012.
>>> 

I have no idea what to do next and would appreciate any suggestions.