Start X11 automatically when launching programs from Terminal

Alejandro Imass aimass at yabarana.com
Thu May 16 19:12:37 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Leo Singer <aronnax at macports.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mountain Lion, how do you configure X11 (provided by MacPorts' xorg port) to start automatically as needed? When I am Terminal.app, if I run 'xclock', I just get:
>
>     Error: Can't open display:
>
> It works fine if I open /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app, then open an xterm window, and then run 'xclock' from there.
>

Strange because I've been using X11 apps for years and they always
launch X11 automatically.

I'm currently running on OS X 10.7.5

-- 
Alejandro Imass


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