Quartz no longer launching when an X application is invoked

Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolcott at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 06:47:19 UTC 2023


Hi Ryan;

  It was defined in ~/.zprofile and created by MacPorts in 2021 :-)  I
commented it out. I'll source the .zprofile and see what happens.

Thanks,
Ken

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:23 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2023, at 16:01, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> >
> > 3. My DISPLAY environment variable is set to ":0";
> > I do not know where this variable is not being set properly or is
> > being overridden.
>
> You need to figure out where DISPLAY=:0 is being set, and remove the code that does so. It's probably in your shell startup file. Depending on which shell you use, there are many possible names for startup files in your home directory: .zshrc, .zprofile, .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc.
>
> Setting DISPLAY=:0 was correct in Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier but it has not been correct since Mac OS X 10.5.


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