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

[Will Mortensen]

On Dec 25, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 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.

If you let launchd set DISPLAY, then Terminal's shell will have knowledge of it, and you will be able to launch an X client from it. If X11/Xquartz is not already running, it will be started automatically.

> 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.

None of that is necessary.

> 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?

That is essentially what launchd does for you.