Re: x11 won't start up; keeps trying
Re: x11 won't start up; keeps trying
- Subject: Re: x11 won't start up; keeps trying
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:44:41 -0700
On Aug 17, 2010, at 10:38, Tom Grace wrote:
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> On 17.08.2010, at 18.36, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 01:52, Tom Grace wrote:
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>>> On 16.08.2010, at 17.47, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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>>>> On Aug 16, 2010, at 05:02, Tom Grace wrote:
>>>>> How can I change this?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200311151254441
>>>>
>>>>> OK, I'll give that a try for the time being. Would you suggest installing the new update to XQuartz? Would this likely overwrite strange settings like the one above?
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, go ahead and install the new version. It contains a bunch of bug fixes and security fixes not yet in the official release. You'll need to launch XQuartz.app rather than X11.app for this version.
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>> Do you have a ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, or ~/.bash_profile? If so, please move them aside.
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>> Please reboot, then run from Terminal:
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>> DISPLAY="" /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
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>> What happens for that case?
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> It looks like it starts up ok:
Ok.
>> If it works, please try running it without the DISPLAY="" and tell me what happens for that case.
>
> I don't get any errors, just another prompt.
What did you run? Running '/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11' should at-least print something. Make sure you exit the previous X11 first.
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