[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.8.0 status

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Wed Feb 17 13:34:27 PST 2021



> On Feb 11, 2021, at 14:59, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Am 11.2.2021 um 21:22 schrieb Tom Lane <tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> 
>> The business about not auto-launching an xterm
>> when XQuartz is started seems to have now infected 2.7.11 too
> 
> XQuartz 2.8.0 comes without any X client.

Hey Peter, can you explain what you mean by this?  There are quite a number of default client apps in /opt/X11/bin

> And when you want to launch Xterm from MacPorts or any other source via ~/.xinitrc then it seems to be necessary to either set PATH in that shell script or use at least the complete path name of the X client.

Yes.  That is expected. .xinitrc is not run from a login shell.

> I've put
> 
> 	echo "$X11_PREFS_DOMAIN" > ~/X11-prefs-domain
> 	echo "$PATH" >> ~/X11-prefs-domain
> 
> into my .xinitrc to check…
> 
> --
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> 
>  Pete
> 
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