Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
- Subject: Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
- From: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 02:44:08 -0400
On 08/04/2008, Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> wrote:
> That is all good and fine so long as you start your X11 programs from
> within other X11 programs such as xterm, your .xinitrc or window
> manager etc., but a bit more difficult if you wish to start them from
> Terminal, say, or a standalone app that you launch using Finder,
> Quicksilver etc.
Right. Personally I think MacOS X not using X11 for their GUI is a
big mistake, and what launchd support inadvertently did was to
make this mistake suddenly very obvious. But I'm now very off topic
by saying such an opiniated thing here.
> Back when I was running Tiger, I did set DISPLAY=:0 in
> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. It never caused any difficulty (until I
> upgraded to Leopard and discovered I had to remove it), but then I
> never ran more than one instance of X11 on my laptop anyhow.
Yes, that's what I mean when I say the problem is not obvious
on mostly-one-user-at-a-time systems like MacOS X (or even
Linux), because it would be very rare to have more than one X
server running. You could run into this if you use fast user
switching, and when I first did that (and run X on both users) I
did get very confused at first because I didn't realize the second
X would be :1.
--
cheers,
-ambrose
The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by
idiots. So SAD... (Sites that does spam filtering on mails sent to the
abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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