On 2007-11-23 17:32:01 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
In any case, I've been playing with X11 on Leopard lately but haven't been able to experience this functionality, if I unset the DISPLAY variable I simply can't open X11 programs from Terminal.app
AFAIK, unsetting DISPLAY is an error if you want to use X clients, even Apple ones.
(even Apple provided ones under /usr/X11/bin); no launchd magic happens and all I get are "can't find display" errors (even though I do have a / tmp/launch-QLJ9Yh/\:0 sockect).
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