[Xquartz-dev] System X11 binaries in path ahead of XQuartz

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Can you please file a bug report at http://xquartz.macosforge.org ... I think naming it something like 50-XQuartz might be prudent.

Thanks,
Jeremy

On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:42, Adam Mercer wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Just installed the 2.5.0rc1 on SL and found a minor annoyance. The
> binaries from the system X11 are in the path ahead of the XQuartz
> binaries:
> 
> $ which xterm
> /usr/X11/bin/xterm
> $ echo $PATH
> /Users/ram/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/X11/bin
> $
> 
> The DISPLAY variable is correctly set:
> 
> $ echo $DISPLAY
> /tmp/launch-3ESeJo/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
> $
> 
> I imagine that this is due to path_helper reading the files in
> /etc/paths.d in alphabetical order, as renaming /etc/paths.d/XQuartz
> to 00XQuartz, for example, results in the XQuartz binaries ahead of
> the system X11 binaries in the path.
> 
> I can do this manually but I wonder if this should be done in the
> installer, otherwise the system X11 binaries are going to be used?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adam
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