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Re: wierd display problem
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Re: wierd display problem


  • Subject: Re: wierd display problem
  • From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:28:21 -0700

On Apr 18, 2012, at 20:16, Itai Seggev wrote:

> I copied over my .xinitrc.d directory from my old to new MBP.  The old one was
> running Leopard + XQuartz 2.6.0 (I think, I can double check if necessary).
> The new one is using stock Lion 10.7.3 X11.app.  The total contents of the
> directory are
>
> dcopserver
> klipper&
> cd
> konsole&
> zsh ~/.open_konsole_shells&  #script to add more tabs and resize
> exec kwin
>
> This worked fine on the old machine, but on the new one the konsole shells have
> a display of :0.

They should also have that DISPLAY on your old system as well.  That's inherited from xinit which has never actually used the launchd socket.

>  The app which originally caused X11 to laucnh (e.g., xterm&)
> has the correct display.

Yep, because it inherited it from Terminal.app

>  I put in a debugging echo into right into the very
> start of the first script and the display there is already :0.
>
> 1) Why is it only broken on Lion

What is actually broken?

> 2) (More importantly), who can I fix it?

If the only thing is that $DISPLAY isn't the launchd socket, that's not anything new.  You're welcome to hack on xinit to figure out a solution, but it's not really worth it, IMO.

--Jeremy


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