Re: terminal and x11
Re: terminal and x11
- Subject: Re: terminal and x11
- From: Markian Hlynka <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:52:46 -0700
On Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003, at 16:29 Canada/Mountain, email@hidden
wrote:
So, I have my path set in terminal so I can launch x-apps from there,
instead of only from an xterm. However, this only works in terminal
windows which are opened/launched _after x11.app is running. I think,
in a general way, I sort of understand why. But can anyone give me a
more detailed explanation, and is there a workaround that would allow
terminal windows that were up previously to "just work" once x11.app
is
running?
Well, if you don't have an X server running, your X clients (the
applications)
have nobody to draw their windows for them.
I'm not sure if we understand one another there or not. I realize that
my xserver must be running. However, what I want to do is:
1. Launch terminal. open a window. do stuff. X stuff does not work. All
of a sudden, I realize I need to run an x-app from this directory
2. Start x11.app.
3. go back to the terminal window opened in step 1. type "xterm", and
have it work.
Currently, this will not work on my system; Instead, I have to open a
_new terminal window. I want xterm to operate immediately in the
previous terminal window. But, yes, after I've launched x11.
One solution to this is to specify your X server as a login item so it
starts up
every time you log in. That's what I do. Then it's always there when
you want to
run an X application.
I suppose. Maybe I'm still not unixified enough (after 10 years!), but
I don't like to leave stuff running that I'm not going to use more
frequently than a certain threshold.
What would be better would be a way to do what you describe by
clicking on an
icon for the X application in question. OroborOSX provides for this by
using
script files with an extension of '.x11app'. When you click on the
icon for the
file (or an alias to it) then OroborOSX starts up if it isn't already
loaded,
and after that the commands in the script are executed. I think
Apple's X server
badly needs something like this.
This would also be cool. I support this idea too! :)
Markian
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