On Aug 7, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
E.g., it's probably good that you're explicitly setting DISPLAY to
be safe, while open-x11 doesn't seem to be doing that.
Bennett> I've used "open-x11 && export DISPLAY=:0.0 && xfig" -- an
Bennett> improvement over the hardcoding of the location of X11.app.
The code I found related to open-x11 does set DISPLAY, I think. What
would it do otherwise?
Could you post this script, so that we can have a look? The version I
found at
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/901
for example, seems to accept command arguments.
This is Apple's script (found at /usr/bin/open-x11).
Bennett
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#!/bin/bash
# usage: open-x11 PROGRAM-1 PROGRAM-2 ... PROGRAM-N
# this will often work (always, if X11 is already running)
x11_app=X11
# but try to find the real location just in case..
if [ -d /Applications/Utilities/X11.app ]; then
x11_app=/Applications/Utilities/X11.app
elif [ -d /Applications/X11.app ]; then
x11_app=/Applications/X11.app
fi
# fix $PATH to include X directories
for d in /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/local/bin/X11; do
if [ -d $d ]; then
case $PATH in
'')
PATH=$d
;;
$d|$d:*|*:$d|*:$d:*)
: do nothing
;;
*)
PATH=$PATH:$d
;;
esac
fi
done
# try to launch each app
while [ $# -ge 1 ]; do
app="$1"; shift
if [ ! -f "$app" ]; then
# preserve previous behaviour of searching likely locations
real_app=`type -p "$app"`
if [ -z "$real_app" ]; then
echo "$1: unknown application: $app"; exit 1
fi
app="$real_app"
fi
/usr/bin/open -a "$x11_app" "$app"
done
