Opening X applications from terminal.app

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From terminal.app:
> ~]$ xmgrace
> Can't open display
> Failed initializing GUI, exiting
> $ echo $DISPLAY
>                (==> just a blank line)
> ~]$
>
> From XQuartz xterm application:
> ~]$ echo $DISPLAY
> :0
> ~]$ xmgrace
> (opens Grace normally)
>

Both of those are wrong --- they should both show the launchd socket. Which
makes me think one of your shell dotfiles (.profile .bash_profile .bashrc)
is doing something with $DISPLAY, possibly in ways that only make sense on
e.g. Linux.

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