Re: Noob question: how to do away with xterm launch on X11 launch
Re: Noob question: how to do away with xterm launch on X11 launch
- Subject: Re: Noob question: how to do away with xterm launch on X11 launch
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:52:56 -0800
On Feb 22, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Joseph B. Gurman <email@hidden> wrote:
> Prior to the recent 2.7.0 rc's, launching Xquartz without a ~/.xinitrc simply launched the server; no X11 applications were launched. Now, still without a ~/.xinitrc, an xterm is launched. Is there a simple way to avoid that?
This has actually been the case since Leopard. It was done for behavior compatibility with the old Tiger X11.app which launched xterm when you ran X11.app. You can disable it with:
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 app_to_run /usr/bin/true
--Jeremy
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X11-UsersFAQ#Suppressingxtermlaunchingbydefault
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