[Xquartz-dev] I am having problems with 2.7.5_rc3 and _rc4 (rc2 & before were ok)

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Tue Nov 12 05:40:45 PST 2013


On 12 Nov 2013, at 11:56, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> I don't like that another X server migt be launched when I by  
> accident launch an X client somewhere. This does not belong into the  
> world of my Look & Feel. What happens when I want to launch an X  
> client from AppKit Emacs, NS Emacs, or Terminal, all "Aqua clients"?  
> Their environment has for example 'DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-90gGwj/ 
> org.macosforge.xquartz:0'.

That is the socket used by the X server that was started by launchd,  
and hence all X apps you start will be handled by one and the same X  
server.

> To launch the X client from these applications I can use ":0"  
> instead of a cryptic and lengthy text.

Where exactly do you personally (have to) use that path to the socket?  
Why do you care at all about what that environment variable looks like?


Jonas


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