[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.6.0 (xorg-server 1.9.2.901) and X authority

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.12.2010 um 23:49 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:

> Ok, but that has nothing to do with what you set $DISPLAY to and  
> your disabling launchd support (which was my question)


I think I started to set DISPLAY because Terminal's shell has no  
knowledge of it. So I can't launch an X client off it. In the  
beginning I used

	if (! $?DISPLAY) then ...

as usual. With Tiger some change came so that DISPLAY was then set  
initially via ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist and in ~/.xinitrc defaults  
was writing the actual value into the environment for new processes.  
This stopped working at some time. Of course when I want to launch an  
X client I don't want to switch to Finder, make it open a new window I  
would have to close later, then find my way through the file system  
hierarchy to the directory with the X clients and then search among  
them some time for the one I want to launch. And I also don't want to  
search in the Finder window for my favourite X clients place and  
neither do I want to switch to X11, open its Programmes menu and then  
hopefully find after some time in a large list what I want to launch.  
Why is the DISPLAY variable not communicated among all processes  
running at the moment and launched afterwards, after DISPLAY's first  
setting or its possible change? Is it too complicated to make it work?

Is typing the X client's name (plus "&") my too simplistic approach?  
Do I have to behave in overcomplicated ways because the world outside  
is said to have become complicated? (I think ice age was more  
complicated: not knowing the store and its location with the mammoth  
steaks and veggie burgers and not even having GPS based navigation to  
that store.)

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Greetings

   Pete

If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then  
the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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