Start X11 automatically when launching programs from Terminal

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Thu May 16 19:30:01 PDT 2013


On May 16, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass at yabarana.com> wrote:

> Strange because I've been using X11 apps for years and they always
> launch X11 automatically.
> 
> I'm currently running on OS X 10.7.5

Not strange at all. I think the installer for XQuartz (and for Apple's X11.app, before they stopped shipping it) automatically takes care of the DISPLAY business for you, but the xorg-server port does not.

vq


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