This new binary seems to have corrected the problem. As a test, I put an xeyes in my .xinitrc

xsetroot -mod 2 2 -bg Red -fg Orange

xeyes &

. /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc >& ${HOME}/xinitrc-debug.txt

Before installing your new X11.bin, I was having the same problem (I believe) that John reported.

I installed the new binary and invoked xterm in Terminal.app. No hang. The only issue is that the xeyes window appears briefly in front of my Desktop before the root window appears. But I ended up with xeyes and xterm on my root screen, and no more hang/non-responsive X11.

Louis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Huddleston" <jeremyhu@apple.com>
To: "Developer talk about Xquartz" <xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:16:43 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc5 quitting and restarting

Hi John,

Sorry for the confusion. I think I have a fix for you. Please try
this binary:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/X11.bin-20081231.bz2