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

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Dec 27, 2010, at 02:40, Peter Dyballa wrote:

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> Am 27.12.2010 um 02:17 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:
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>>> Why are there still two different ways to launch X11?
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>> Why not?  Launch on demand, and explicitly launched.
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> Both are the supported ways, those with launchd?

Both paths use launchd.

>>> I mean, there is Automator! And there is also the Internet technique on an invisible pixel to have access to the user of a web page. This could have been extended into launching an invisible, temporary, and very simplistic X client that X11 gets launched via launchd? And why wasn't Dock removed when it bypasses launchd?
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>> What does Dock have to do with anything?
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> I remember that you once wrote that double-clicking on the X11 icon in Dock is not the supported way to launch X11

I've never said that (and you only need to single click an icon on the Dock).

> (I then had a ~/.xinitrc file) and at the start of this thread you again wrote of an unsupported way I use X11.

What I've said is unsupported is your changing of the DISPLAY environment variable.

> This kept me thinking. It seems now that only setting DISPLAY to :0 in ~/.login was meant...

Yes.  That is correct.  Don't change, set, or unset DISPLAY.