More on the Biggles saga

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Dec 29 22:50:16 PST 2009


On Dec 30, 2009, at 00:46, David Nicholls wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Ports that use X11 use the MacPorts X11 *libraries* but will run in
>> any X11 *server* -- be that Apple's included one, the one from
>> XQuartz, or the xorg-server port in MacPorts.
> 
> Is there any way to specify a particular server?

Apple's auto-start feature (with the way they set the DISPLAY variable) is AFAIK specific to their server. If you want to use another server, start it first, and set DISPLAY to the correct value (e.g. ":0.0").



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