[Xquartz-dev] x11-exec

[Ben Byer]

AFAIK, one of the big limiting factors here is that Xquartz has to  
either live inside a .app bundle, or pretend to do so with exec/argv/ 
etc, in order to have a dock icon at all.

On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> Well the one that "represents the X applications" *is* the X  
> server.  With the way things are in git, it's behaving like it was  
> before 2.1.1.  putting the app in the dock and clicking it launches  
> a new xterm and a new icon represents the server.  I'm actually fine  
> with that, but I don't know how others will react.
>
> As it is, though, I believe disabling launchd support will still  
> cause the 10.4 behavior.
>
> I know vmware does some weird hackery with .apps that cause it to  
> "just work" as expected.  I think we should just try putting as much  
> of x11-exec and server_main() functionality into xinit and actually  
> use that to start Xquartz (which loads its resources rather than  
> grabbing them from X11.app with some weird argv[0] and fork()ing  
> hacks).
>
> What are peoples' thoughts?
>
> --Jeremy
>
> On Dec 14, 2007, at 04:45, Derek Fawcus wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:43:33PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>> That way, people running Xquartz directly will see it with menus and
>>> the right icon.  Also, I think this is a bit stronger from a  
>>> software
>>> engineering standpoint.  The only problem with that is that we'll  
>>> then
>>> have a new two-icon icon issue when people put /A/U/X11.app in the
>>> dock... hrm...
>>
>> So can we accept that but make them different?
>>
>> i.e. have one icon for the Xserver,  and one that sort of represents
>> the X applications?  but I'm not sure what one would want to do wrt
>> to menus if / when switching between the two.
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Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer