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Re: Eliminating the xterm
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Re: Eliminating the xterm


  • Subject: Re: Eliminating the xterm
  • From: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:07:42 -0800

On Nov 13, 2007 9:26 AM, Jack Repenning <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 1:44 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> > This looks like a bug. Shouldn't "open -a" or double-clicking the
> > app icon when the app is already running be equivalent to clicking
> > the dock icon or running the applescript 'tell app "X11" to activate'?
>
> Or, flip that around: when X11 is launched by launchd, in response to
> a connection request at a time when X11 is not running, how the heck
> does it manage to avoid starting that xterm?

You've got it backwards.  The real /usr/X11/X11.app is launched in
response to the xterm's connection request.  The xterm is started by
/Applications/Utilities/X11.app, which is a fancy app wrapper that's
basically equivalent to typing "xterm" in Terminal.app.  Rename
/A/U/X11.app to XTerm.app and it may help you keep things straight.

Cheers,
-n8

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>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
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 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: Jack Howarth <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: Jack Repenning <email@hidden>)

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