New 10.6.4

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 20, 2010, at 00:15, John B Brown wrote:

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> On 6/19/10 10:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jun 19, 2010, at 23:45, John B Brown wrote:
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>>> On 6/19/10 6:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>>> On Jun 19, 2010, at 10:11, John B Brown wrote:
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>>>>> After the first few start-ups after installing XQuartz I decided I didn't need an XQuartz xterm starting automatically. I set XQuartz to start nothing. xterm still starts automatically. Possibly this is an XQuartz problem but the weirdness now includes a full screen xterm starting. This last twist is since the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update.
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>>>> Have you already tried the usual instructions for disabling the auto-starting xterm?
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>>>> http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-77693.html
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>>> 	Following the directions on the forum, I commented out the bottom of the xinitrc script from twm&  to the last line of xterm starts. There is no change; a small xterm screen still presents after login.
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>> In what file did you make that change?
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> 	After copying xinitrc from /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc I modified that file. That was after discovering there were duplicates of the /opt/X11 tree under /usr/X11, not exact duplicates.
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> 	So I got around to following the exact directions after modifying the original under the /usr tree, and then under the /opt tree and;
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> 	nothing changed. And still nothing has changed. I restored all the originals to their original text.

To make absolutely sure: You're editing the file ~/.xinitrc, right? Not the file /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc or /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc?

If you're editing /.xinitrc and it's not having any effect, I don't know why. I have not tried XQuartz per se; I've used Mac OS X's X11 and the xorg-server port in MacPorts. They should be similar though.