But then it seems that 10.10 clobbers something related to X11 when it boots, since it was working with 2.7.7 prior to rebooting. I don't know, that's the way it seems to this novice. Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] XQuartz 2.7.7 on OSX 10.10.4 From: [email protected] Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:44:56 -0700 CC: [email protected] To: [email protected]
On Jul 24, 2015, at 14:34, Mike Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote:I shutdown the system, brought it back up, and all things X seem to still be working fine, using 2.7.5 on 10.10...as long as I launch from an xterm. I still cannot start anything X from Terminal, getting for example: xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.MlMUGQYr04/org.macosforge.xquartz:0 NEdit: Can't open display gv: Unable to open the display. I guess I have to decide whether to be satisfied with this for now, or try to understand why 10.10 interferes with 2.7.7 when I boot my machine. That is the mystery to me, why I could have these two working together, then lose that upon rebooting. Actually, that's the second mystery...the first is what I ever did to get them to finally work together, because that didn't come from simply installing 10.10, then fink, then Xcode, then 2.7.7. There were intermediate installations of XQuartz versions that seemed to have something to do with it. For example, install 2.7.7, uninstall, install 2.7.5, uninstall, then install 2.7.7 again. In one case, I reinstalled all of xinitrc from fink, and that seemed to allow 2.7.7 to work. Craaazyyy. That’s actually not so crazy. Fink’s xinitrc actually backs up a system-level xinitrc file and replaces that with its own version. When you update Xquartz you clobber Fink’s file, so you _should_ reinstall xinitrc after updating Xquartz. Unfortunately we don’t have a good way to enforce this. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison
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