Macports xorg-server as default X11

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Wed May 16 00:32:10 PDT 2012


You probably missed the postactivate message from xinit.  I suggest you 'sudo port -f deactivate xinit && sudo port activate xinit' to get the appropriate message for your configuration.

--Jeremy


On May 15, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Frank Schima <macsforever2000 at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 
> On a fresh system:
> Mac OS X 10.7.4
> Xcode 4.3.2
> Macports 2.1.0
> 
> I installed Macports and installed xorg-server-devel and rebooted.
> 
> $ port installed xorg-server* xinit
> The following ports are currently installed:
>  xinit @1.3.2_3 (active)
>  xorg-server-devel @1.12.99.0_2 (active)
> 
> When I run a simple X11 program like xeyes, the default Mac OS X X11 (version 1.10.6) with the old icon runs instead of the Macports one. I thought the xinit port was supposed to just work? Jeremy, Cc'ed, do you have any ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Frank
> 



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