On Dec 19, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

Is there a way we can provide "hints" to the X11.app detection (in xinit.c)? Right now, mine is getting set to ~/src/freedesktop/dist/ Applications/Utilities/X11.app ... it seems like there should be a way to tell LSFindApplicationForInfo how to disambiguate between two matches...

I looked at the documentation for LSFindApplicationForInfo and didn't find anything useful: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/LaunchServicesRefe... /apple_ref/c/func/LSFindApplicationForInfo

I ran into this quite a bit, too -- which I why I ended up leaving a debugging printf in place. AFAIK, the answer is "no". It apparently has some heuristics it uses to try to find the "right" thing (time modified, location, etc), but I don't think there's any way to force it to pick something. In my testing, it somehow always managed to pick the weirdest possible version of X11.app -- but most people won't have 9 different versions of X11.app on their system, so I shrugged it off. I'm not *positive* that you will actually have this program on your system, but if you do, you might find it helpful for debugging -- / System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/ LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister. -- Ben Byer CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer