Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
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
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
X11-users mailing list (email@hidden)
This email sent to email@hidden