On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Dave McGuire <mcgu...@neurotica.com> wrote: > On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: >>>> >>>> Ahhh... OK, I get it. Yes, my build brings up the X server. But other >>>> than the start-up time, that doesn't bother me. X11 is preinstalled as of >>>> 10.6 (or maybe 10.5, I forget which) so the hassle factor is pretty >>>> minimal. >>> >>> 10.6 seems to define a $DISPLAY environment variable in a way that makes >>> it a hook to a launcher that brings up X11.app on demand. >> >> This feature existed in Leopard as well, but many folks had set DISPLAY in >> their profiles and overrode the launcher. >> >> In 10.5 and beyond you want to not set DISPLAY in your profile. > > "Feature"? This isn't how X works, it's not how X EVER worked, and it's > not how X is SUPPOSED to work. Wow I wonder what they were smoking when > they did this.
Steve did a good job of explaining the mechanics of this, but do note that most X servers are launched before the user session starts, and therefore would not benefit from the on-demand server startup that OS X has. You explained previously that you keep X11.app open all day - for those who only open it once in a while, it's nice not to have to worry about whether you set $DISPLAY properly, or whether your DISPLAY=:0 line just stomped on a SSH X forwarding setting. -- - Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user