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[Andrea D'Amore]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:26 PM, io <paolodamessina at libero.it> wrote:
> According to a suggestion from Andrea, I used a simple .xinitrc:
>
> exec twm
> /opt/local/bin/metacity &

That doesn't make much sense, you should send processes in background
before exec'ing, and you shouldn't launch two window managers anyway.

> Then in MacOsX terminal by command startx below I had:
>
> To execute a file of the current directory use ./
> io in ~ $ startx
> font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
> font_cache: Updating FC cache
> xauth:  file /Users/io/.serverauth.45702 does not exist
>
> launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure: Operation not permitted
> Xquartz: Unable to locate waiting server: org.x.X11
> Xquartz: X11.app = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
> Xquartz: Starting X server: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
> To execute a file of the current directory use ./
> X11.app: main(): argc=2
>        argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
>        argv[1] = --listenonly
> Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
> X11.app: No launchd socket handed off, unsetting DISPLAY
> X11.app: do_start_x11_server(): argc=6
>        argv[0] = /usr/X11/bin/X
>        argv[1] = :0
>        argv[2] = -nolisten
>        argv[3] = tcp
>        argv[4] = -auth
>        argv[5] = /Users/io/.serverauth.45702
> Xquartz starting:
> X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple56
> Build Date: 20100624
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
> font_cache: Done
> To execute a file of the current directory use ./
> (the last line above is echoed from my profile)
>
> May be this gives any useful information?

The useful information would be if that works or not, I have the very
same output and Xquartz works fine.

Also as it was suggested into the thread, I tried setting a variable
in Terminal.app before launching Xquartz and that makes the variables
available in xterm too.

-- 
Andrea