[Xquartz-dev] 2.1.2 released

[robert delius royar]

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 (12:35 -0800 UTC) Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> It's basically the same as the last rc, but I added in a 'login_shell' option 
> that users of tcsh can set to '/bin/tcsh' so applications launched from the 
> Applications menu get the tcsh environment instead of the bash environment:
>
> defaults write org.x.X11 login_shell /bin/tcsh
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.2
>
> --Jeremy

Two things I notice on my system after installing this upgrade
  1. It forced a restart (during a TimeMachine hourly backup), and after
     the restart backups would not run.  There was a file marked
     ".incomplete" for that backup.  I have read of other forced restarts
     (other than from Apple updates) appearing to interfere with
     TimeMachine.  I am still waiting to see if the next window for
     TM leads to a backup--so far there have been seven failed attempts.
  2. I did the defaults write, but top shows an extra bash process--is
     that to be expected?  I do not see any tcsh processes other than the
     ones I started on my own.

Why do we need to restart OS X and not just the X system?  I mention TM 
because I wonder whether there are incompatibilities between TM and 
forced restart by third-party installers.  I can't imagine that any 
changes in Xquartz or X11.app would affect TM.

-- 
Dr. Robert Delius Royar                   Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University                             Morehead, Kentucky