I am a little confused, though, as to why we are trying to find a
way to
preemptively launch the X server without starting a "real
program". Is
this to avoid the .xinitrc / .Xresources race condition?
I can tell you why I do it. I don't ordinarily use Terminal, so how
else am I supposed to launch the X server? Clicking on the X11 icon
in
my dock is the way I launched X11 ever since there was an X11 in OS X.
Now that the ssh-agent is running in the background (although it
doesn't
play nice with RHEL 3, which is annoying), I don't even mind that I
*don't* get an xterm upon startup. Start up X, then start up 3 xterms
from the Applications menu, and I'm at my standard setup.
Okay, that's easy. Add "xterm &" back into the system xinitrc or your
personal ~/.xinitrc. Then, either change the command run by /Apps/
Utils/X11.app to something innocuous like xlsclients, or simply run /
usr/X11/X11.app directly.
(In the latter case, the launch-on-demand functionality won't work,
but it doesn't sound like you need it.)
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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