[Xquartz-dev] quartz-wm zoom button

[Viv Kendon]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>>> ls -l Xquartz*
>>> 56 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 53484 Dec  4 13:47 Xquartz*
>>> 40 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39200 Nov 27 06:47 Xquartz-1.4.2-apple25*
>>> 
>>> I can only tell it is apple26 because it is bigger, it still reports 
>>> itself as being apple25 when I ask "about X11".
>> 
>> Really?  I see "XQuartz 2.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple26)"

Nope, I double checked and I see -apple25 under the X11 
menu...

> BTW, you can also just run:
>
> /usr/X11/bin/X -version

...but this does report -apple26.

> I wonder if you replaced the /usr/X11/bin/X symlink with the 1.4.2-apple21 
> binary at some point...

I haven't touched that symlink (it is still a sumlink to 
Xquartz).  -apple21 is probably the version I updated 
before running those tests though.  But I didn't save the 
installed copy, I let the installer overwrite it.

I wonder whether somehow launchd (or something deep in OSX 
internals) is sometimes hanging on to the actual file 
location for the old Xquartz and still launching the old one 
even though it has been officially unlinked and replaced 
with the new one.  That would definitely cause the old one 
to be unhappy, surrounded by files belonging to a newer 
distribution.  And it would explain why a crash was enough 
to get rid of it when next launched.

-- Viv
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