Re: Leopard X11 Update 2.3.3.1
Re: Leopard X11 Update 2.3.3.1
- Subject: Re: Leopard X11 Update 2.3.3.1
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:13:55 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> message dated "Sun, 17 May 2009 21:10:19 -0700."
Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On May 17, 2009, at 20:39, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > Hmmm. I just updated my laptop and my desktop to 10.5.7, then to X11
> > 2.3.3.1. Laptop seems fine; X runs as normal on login.
> >
> > But on my desktop, if I click the /Applications/Utilities/X11.app, or
> > put it in my Login Items, it appears for a few seconds, then
> > disappears.
> > In my log file (my .xinitrc keeps this log file), I find this message:
> >
> > Error: another clipboard is already running
> >
> > This is from xclipboard, which I run as the "blocking" client at the
> > end
> > of the .xinitrc file.
>
> Well that's your problem.
>
> 1) Don't use ~/.xinitrc. Use ~/.xinitrc.d instead
I guess I don't see the point. Why do I need a directory?
> 2) Let the WM be the exec'd application, not a clipboard manager.
Yes, a very typical arrangement. But I like to run the WM first,
not last.
> 3) If you want to use xclipboard, you need to disable some of
> xpbproxy's behavior.
> Look in X11->Preferences->Clipboard
>
> > So is this release already automagically running a clipboard or
> > pasteboard?
>
> I don't really understand this question.
>
> > Is this built into quartz-wm now?
>
> The pasteboard proxying was being done by quartz-wm. As of 2.3.2, it
> is done entirely by a thread in the Xserver (an updated version of the
> code that was formerly in quartz-wm) with support for proxying
> CLIPBOARD.
I think that answers my question -- it is automagically running a
clipboard or pasteboard. OK, I'll take out my xclipboard, and try that.
> > What's weirder is that if I start Terminal, then start an xterm from
> > that, the whole X11 server and my .xinitrc start up just fine.
>
> Maybe xclipboard is winning the race in this case.
Sounds like a reasonable hypothesis.
Bill
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