Re: problem opening xterm
Re: problem opening xterm
- Subject: Re: problem opening xterm
- From: JF Mezei <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 14:12:16 -0400
On 2016-08-06 14:04, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> This means your dotfiles (probably cribbed from Linux) are overriding
> $DISPLAY. Don't do that; there is no guarantee that the display is actually
> :0, and the persistent security access keys are indexed by the $DISPLAY set
> by launchd not the actual display.
You are right. I had commented out an EXPORT DISPLAY=:0 but there was
another one lurking around.
xterm -e login & created a process:
login: <myuser>
Password:
Last login: Sat Jul 23 21:45:55 on console
Running JF's .profile XX
Setting up the X windows stuff
bike:~ $ echo $DISPLAY
bike:~ $
And now, $DISPLAY appears empty (or may contain some binary value ?)
However, when it was set at :0 an xterm & did work. But XQuartz/X11 app
was already running. I know that when it is not running, that special
string for DISPLAY is crucial to get the X server started.
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