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Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
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Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up


  • Subject: Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
  • From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:35:00 -0700


On Oct 28, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Nathan wrote:

On 10/27/07, Ben Byer <email@hidden> wrote:
Biggest user-visible change:  launchd support for X11.  The only
situation where you should need to manually start X11.app is if you
are only running remote X11 applications.

Are you sure? I don't run any local X11 applications, but on Leopard, with X11 off, I do 'ssh -Y mylinuxserver' (which graphically prompts me for my SSH key passphrase -- whoa!) and then I run a program that requires X, and X11 automagically pops up in my dock and the program works.

That's awesome!  I can take the DISPLAY=... trickery out of my
.profile and I no longer have to train coworkers about the DISPLAY
variable!  I just checked, and without my DISPLAY junk in my .profile,
it's set to /tmp/launch-zk0BPF/:0


No, I'm not sure. :) That's great -- that's exactly how it's supposed to work. If you use ssh to connect to remote hosts, it will work correctly because ssh tunnels those connections itself; I meant the situation where someone is using ... rsh or telnet? ... to connect to a remote machine, and then explicitly setting DISPLAY=myothermachine:0.

(Yes, people still do this!)
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer

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References: 
 >X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Robert Tillyard <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: "Chris Linstid" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Nathan <email@hidden>)

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