[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc5 quitting and restarting

John Koren jpkoren at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 13:38:09 PST 2008


>> In the meantime I noticed that the stall occurs only if I launch rxvt
>> (or xterm) from xinitrc. If I remove rxvt from xinitrc the stall is
>> prevented.
>
> Yes. There should be a big red warning somewhere
>
> "Don't Run Any X Clients From ~/.xinitrc, or you are in deep trouble".
>
> Actually, once X11 has gone into its funny state, even logout/login does not
> suffice, one really has to reboot, as John said. Or simply remove the
> offending ~/.xinitrc and then force quit X11. This brings up a sane X11
> which one then can quit normally.
>
> --
> Martin

I would like to confirm that including any x11 client (e.g., xeyes) in
the xinitrc will cause the hang on X11.app restart.

-John


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