Start X11 automatically when launching programs from Terminal

Alejandro Imass aimass at yabarana.com
Thu May 16 20:57:20 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Lawrence Velázquez
<larryv at macports.org> wrote:
> On May 16, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass at yabarana.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Not strange at all. I think the installer for XQuartz (and for Apple's X11.app, before they stopped shipping it) automatically takes care of the DISPLAY business for you, but the xorg-server port does not.
>

I see. So they will probably break when I upgrade ? - good thing I
read the thread
Thanks for the heads up ;-)



-- 
Alejandro Imass

> vq


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