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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