migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
- Subject: migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
- From: "Mark E. Perkins" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:06:42 -0700
Actually, I'm moving from an old iMac running Tiger to a new Mini w/ 10.6.4
(as distributed, with all updates). For the moment we can consider this a
"desert start" on 10.6.4; I have not used Migration Assistant; only copied
over some startup files (.bash_profile, .bashrc, .Xdefaults). As I
understand things, using ~/.xinitrc is deprecated, so I'm not doing that.
I have one file in ~/.xinitrc.d, with the following contents:
xterm -geometry 80x50+0+0 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+200+200 &
exec twm
Hopefully, it's obvious that I want to start up twm with two xterms
(actually, this is stripped down from what I *really* want, but it
illustrates the problem).
I launch /Applications/Utilities/X11.app and I get twm with the two xterms
plus the "free" xterm courtesy of X11.app. Now the problems:
The two xterms that *I* run start in the root directory ('/'), and their
DISPLAY variables are wrong. In those shells, I see
-> echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
In the "free" xterm, I get what I think I should get
-> echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-IEEyrc/org.x:0
and this is also what I get in subsequent xterms that I launch later.
I am not setting DISPLAY in any of my startup files; I've checked, and if I
move them aside, the above issues remain. Same holds if I use quartz-wm
instead of twm.
I've scanned back through the archives, checked the Xquartz FAQ, but I
don't see anything relevant to this problem.... Obviously, I'm missing
something.
"About X11" reports Xquartz 2.3.5 and xorg server 1.4.2-apple53
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mark
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