X11.app mods
X11.app mods
- Subject: X11.app mods
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:00:03 PDT
Ben,
By the way, going with the newer codebase is absolutely the right
thing to do. I'm less sure about launchd; having something that's not
a hostname as the first part of the DISPLAY value seems
not-quite-right to me. But I understand the reasoning behind it.
Could you think about adding a preference which would change the
launchd settings from launch-on-demand to always-running? Maybe the
BSD subsystem needs its own preference pane in System Preferences.
About X11.app: The first thing I did when I installed Leopard, and
started having problems, was to copy /Applications/Utilities/X11.app,
and replace the Contents/MacOS/X11 program with the following script:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/X11/bin/Xquartz &
sleep 5
/usr/bin/login -fp $USER ~/.xinitrc
This is basically a light-weight version of xinit. I suppose that a
more user-portable one would run /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc if the
user didn't have an existing .xinitrc. I run quartz-wm inside my
.xinitrc.
This gives me my normal environment of windows, and prevents the
multiple dock icons, but I don't get the normal "appness" -- no app
menus. Which is OK with me, since I don't use them for much anyway.
Anyway, I just wanted to suggest that the standard X11.app could
run the user's .xinitrc if it exists, instead of running xterm to
start the server.
Bill
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