X windows and applications advice

[James Griffin]

> On 21 May 2014, at 11:12, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On May 21, 2014, at 04:50, James Griffin wrote:
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>> I had XQuartz installed. I hadn't logged in and out (maybe irrelevant) but I simply deleted by selecting "moving to trash". Is that all that's needed to get rid of it? I'm gunna build macports version.
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> I don't know. Did you check if XQuartz publishes an uninstall script, or uninstall instructions?
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> If you had informed launchd that you want to use XQuartz as your display, you'll have to tell launchd to stop doing that. You may instead want to tell it to use the MacPorts version.
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I'll check for launchd stuff. I did try to find an uninstall script but nowt there. 

The macports install is pulling in texlive but I've already got mactex installed so not sure why it needs to do that. I suppose I could just stick with the macports texlive instead of the tug.org package.