Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

[Charles Lepple <clepple@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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


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