oopps, this "feature" may give sou some trouble.
If an app launches a splash screen which closes before the main window is opened... the XServer shuts down and now the app can't connect to the XServer.
I just got a bug report about this issue from a user, who couldn't launch GIMP any longer since he had enabled auto-shutdown. Disabling auto-shutdown solved it.
The same issue should occur if you log into a remote computer using 'ssh -X' and start any xclient. After you quit the xclient,and if this was the last X window, XQuartz quits too, leaving the ssh connetion in an unusable state.
Yeah, this is really some sort of "auto-shutdown".
No matter what you want to do, it will shut down your app and the XServer automatically. ;-) (SCNR)
So I vote to drop this auto-shutdown switch to avoid users getting into trouble.
skl
defaults write org.x.X11 wm_auto_quit -bool true
Whoah, that was me! A feature implemented just for me!? Sweet! Christmas!
Thanks, Jeremy! I'm going to download it right now, though I won't be
able to really seriously try it out until work on Monday.