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Refer to the recently posted topic here.  mjsmitho explains how to add shortcuts to the Applications menu of X11 (probably a lot better than I could) so your wife won't have to type in commands to launch apps under X11.

~jlk

Thank you.  I had seen this post, but I was too ignorant to recognize that it addressed my issue.

A follow-up: Is it possible (and relatively simple) to create an icon on the mac desktop (or dock) that will both open an X11 window and run a specific X11 application?  I haven't done anything with apple scripting, but I thought that that might be the proper route.

What about setting the Mac OS to automatically open MS documents via X11 and Open Office?

Thank you!

You can do that with an applescript.

The applescript will have to activate the X11 program,
select the Applications menu
select the appropriate command you want it to execute (this is assuming that you added the command as a menu item which can be done in the X11 application).

That's all there is to it.

Once you have the applescript, you can treat it as if it is an application and place it in the dock, etc...


PS - This is a snippet of an applescript I made to navigate the menu of an application (Televio) and select the Save menu item.  This should help you for an X11 one should you want to make it.

    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Televio"
            tell menu bar 1
                tell menu bar item "Record"
                    tell menu "Record"
                        click menu item "Start"
                    end tell
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell

you should probably change the following:
tell process "Televio" with "X11"
menu bar item "Record" with "Applications"
tell menu "Record" with "Applications"
click menu item "Start" with any item you want, eg - "xlogo" or something