Macports xorg-server as default X11

Frank Schima macsforever2000 at macports.org
Wed May 16 07:36:38 PDT 2012


Hi Jeremy,


Thanks, that worked! Yes, I did miss it and I even looked for notes on the port. 


Cheers!
Frank

On May 16, 2012, at 1:32 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> You probably missed the postactivate message from xinit.  I suggest you 'sudo port -f deactivate xinit && sudo port activate xinit' to get the appropriate message for your configuration.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> 
> On May 15, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Frank Schima <macsforever2000 at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> 
>> On a fresh system:
>> Mac OS X 10.7.4
>> Xcode 4.3.2
>> Macports 2.1.0
>> 
>> I installed Macports and installed xorg-server-devel and rebooted.
>> 
>> $ port installed xorg-server* xinit
>> The following ports are currently installed:
>> xinit @1.3.2_3 (active)
>> xorg-server-devel @1.12.99.0_2 (active)
>> 
>> When I run a simple X11 program like xeyes, the default Mac OS X X11 (version 1.10.6) with the old icon runs instead of the Macports one. I thought the xinit port was supposed to just work? Jeremy, Cc'ed, do you have any ideas?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Frank
>> 
> 



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