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: Dave Williss <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:29:48 -0500
That would make it hard to write code to set DISPLAY to that, but
apparently it also works to just NOT set it at all. Somewhat
counter-intuitive to a veteran X11 user, but once you know it, things
are actually pretty easy.
One possible "fix" that Apple could do to make this change backwards
compatible for people who explicitly set DISPLAY to unix:0 or just ":0"
in various .profile, .login, .cshrc, or whatever: In libX11, if
DISPLAY is set to something that would make it local and the socket
isn't there, have it try the launchd socket. Of course, if the launchd
socket name is randomly generated, that might be a bit difficult :-)
I ended up modifying our code to work the "new" way 10.5 and the "old"
way for previous versions.
John Davidorff Pell wrote:
Its randomly generated.
JP
On 29 Oct 2007, at 06:57, Dave Williss wrote:
Is there some reason why the socket name has to be so cryptic? What
does the vbXRyu stand for (if anything).
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