[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc5 quitting and restarting

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Dec 31, 2008, at 09:36, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> ... and my guess is this: With the above method, rxvt may well be in  
> the process of starting up while /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/10- 
> fontdir.sh is running and messing about with fontpath settings  
> behind rxvt's back.

10-fontdir.sh only adds font paths (doesn't remove them).. so that  
isn't it.

> This sort of thing just might be a source of trouble. Other bits of  
> setup, such as loading .Xresources, may also cause trouble when you  
> start X clients this way.
> So the advice should be to not have a .xinitrc at all, but instead do
>
> mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
> echo '/sw/bin/rxvt -tcw &' > ~/.xinitrc.d/rxvt.sh
> chmod +x ~/.xinitrc.d/rxvt.sh
>
> and restart X11.

Yep.