[Xquartz-dev] Uninstaller for XQuartz

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Mar 15, 2009, at 23:38, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> MacPorts doesn't conflict with the xquartz.macosforge.org version.   
> Additionally, the MacPorts version doesn't work with the launchd  
> DISPLAY (by design... I sent an email to the macports-users list a  
> couple weeks back if you want to change that).
>
> As long as you don't enable the +system_x11 variant, MacPorts  
> shouldn't get confused.  If MacPorts *DOES* use it, then it's a  
> bug.  Let me know, and I'll fix it in a timely manner.  None of the  
> ports I use link against /usr/X11 libs.
>
> If you end up removing /usr/X11, then you risk problems with pre- 
> built downloads (like gimp.app or wireshark.app or ...).

Actually, you can probably get around that by doing:

sudo ln -s /opt/local /usr/X11
sudo ln -s /opt/local /usr/X11R6

> The "uninstaller" is:
> sudo pkgutil --unlink org.x.x11.pkg

I take it back.  Don't do that.  That will delete quartz-wm and  
libXplugin.dylib (which you still need ;>)

> but that may leave some font cache files, so this is a bit more  
> thurough:
> sudo rm -rf /Applications/Utilities/X11.app /usr/X11* /System/ 
> Library/Launch*/org.x.*

Just do this ^^^^

You probably also want to delete /etc/*paths.d/X11