Forget ignorant newbie remark about sys-xinitrc-fink not being executable just
because it doesn't have execute permissions. But still wonder about it being
run at startup.
From: mike.wil...@hotmail.com
To: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: mike.wil...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [Fink-beginners] XQuartz 2.7.7 on OSX 10.10.4
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 04:35:04 -0400
I see that /sw/share/xinitrc has the script sys-xinitrc-fink in it. As I
mentioned, at one point, I removed fink's xinitrc package and all its
dependencies, then reinstalled it. XQuartz 2.2.7 seemed to work after
this...until I rebooted. This file wasn't touched by any of this, and still has
the date July 4 (I am not sure what happened that day, perhaps I selfupdated
fink?). And, there are these comments in the file:
# This script works even after the Fink "xinitrc" package is removed.
# Don't worry.
which probably explain its persistence. Does this script get executed at
startup? No, I see it is not executable, so what it is there for?
I did a "fink update xinitrc" which returns with "No packages to install".
Does anything change by updating this package?
From: mike.wil...@hotmail.com
To: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: mike.wil...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [Fink-beginners] XQuartz 2.7.7 on OSX 10.10.4
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:00:56 -0400
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: alexanderk.han...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:44:56 -0700
CC: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net
To: mike.wil...@hotmail.com
On Jul 24, 2015, at 14:34, Mike Wilkes <mike.wil...@hotmail.com> 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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