[Xquartz-dev] How to suppress .xinitrc warning dialog?

Dave Ray apple at jonive.com
Sun Jun 26 22:29:17 PDT 2011


On Sun Jun 26 15:41:09 PDT 2011, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>> mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
>>> echo "USERWM=/usr/X11/bin/twm" > ~/.xinitrc.d/00-twm.sh
>>> chmod 755  ~/.xinitrc.d/00-twm.sh

That works on my system.

> You can also exec it if you'd rather do that...
> 
> mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
> echo "exec /usr/X11/bin/twm" > ~/.xinitrc.d/99-twm.sh
> chmod 755  ~/.xinitrc.d/99-twm.sh

That is not working on my system!

XQuartz 2.6.3_rc1
MacOSX 10.6.8

quartz-wm starts up when launching XQuartz with the following:

$ pwd
/Users/davidray/.xinitrc.d
$ ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   3 davidray  staff   102 Jun 26 22:22 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 69 davidray  staff  2346 Jun 26 22:20 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 davidray  staff    64 Jun 26 22:19 99-twm
$ cat 99-twm 
exec /opt/X11/bin/twm
$ ls -al ~/.x*
/Users/davidray/.xinitrc.d:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   3 davidray  staff   102 Jun 26 22:22 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 69 davidray  staff  2346 Jun 26 22:20 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 davidray  staff    64 Jun 26 22:19 99-twm
$ 

Same results whether I click XQuartz in dock, invoke an X11 app, or run "startx" in the terminal.

Bug?

-Dave


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