Re: migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
Re: migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
- Subject: Re: migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:13:41 -0800
On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:06, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
> 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.
You can remove that if you want:
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X11-UsersFAQ#Suppressingxtermlaunchingbydefault
> 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
That's not wrong. It's just different. That is the value of $DISPLAY passed to xinitrc by xinit. It connects to the same server, just not using the launchd socket. It also will use xauth.
> In the "free" xterm, I get what I think I should get
>
> -> echo $DISPLAY
> /tmp/launch-IEEyrc/org.x:0
Yep.
> and this is also what I get in subsequent xterms that I launch later.
Yep.
> 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.
Yep.
> 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?
What problems are you seeing? If it's just that you're getting a traditional $DISPLAY for things started in xinitrc, that is actually expected. Everything should still work properly.
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