Quartz no longer launching when an X application is invoked

Pieter van Oostrum pieter-l at vanoostrum.org
Mon Dec 4 15:52:13 UTC 2023


Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Users should not need to do *anything* to get DISPLAY correctly set.
> Anything you have in your personal environment configuration should be
> removed. If you aren't getting DISPLAY set with the correct launchd
> socket by default then you must have something that is interfering with
> this.

I removed that line and rebooted, and lo and behold, DISPLAY got properly set and the X server started up automatically when I launced an X11 program.
Thanks for reminding us, Chris.

>
> On 04/12/2023 2:15 pm, Pieter van Oostrum wrote:
>> On my machine I have:
>> export DISPLAY=$(launchctl getenv DISPLAY)
>> I don't know if that is the canonical way to do it but for me it works.
>

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