[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.6.1_rc1

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Wed Mar 23 18:00:47 PDT 2011


On Mar 23, 2011, at 17:27, Dave Ray wrote:

> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
>> The final release has a strange habit: it launches an extra xterm! How  
>> can I stop it doing so?...
> 
> I'm not sure if this is related to your extra xterm. I noticed in 2.6.1_final seems to reset my plist, it reverted to the default which opens an xterm from launchd. I followed instructions in the user FAQ to make it go away: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X11-UsersFAQ.
> 
> You can check if that's whats causing it with:  defaults read org.macosforge.xquartz.X11
> 
> If needed, you can turn it off with:  defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 app_to_run /usr/bin/true

It would be org.x.X11 for the Leopard version since on Leopard, it overrides the Apple-provided X11 and uses that identifier.

There was certainly nothing intentional done to "reset" preferences or anything like that...


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