Ben,
One example where the xterm starting up is undesired behavior is
in the X11 build of pymol. Currently the
pymol package built as pymol-py25 under fink exhibits the following
behavior. If you start 'pymol' from the
Terminal application, the X11 application starts up and the initial
pymol window appears without an
associated xterm. The output issued on startup of pymol properly
appears in the Terminal window where
pymol was started. However when the tkinter gui window with pymol's
menus appears, an xterm is started first.
To be clear here, there are exactly three ways xterm can be launched
as a side effect of some other process:
1. Execute /Applications/Utilities/X11.app, the "X11_launcher" --
this is the only case I was describing.
2. You have a ~/.xinitrc that runs xterm, or you modified the system
xinitirc (/usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc) to add back in the call to
xterm that I removed to prevent this from happening.
3. You run some program that tries to do something clever by either
executing X11.app for you (see #1) or executing xterm itself.
It sounds like #3 is the culprit with pymol / tkinter.
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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