On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:57:54 -0800, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: On 11/17/14, 4:33 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > > Is it expected that invoking xvfb-run is insufficient to trigger > > the launching of Xquartz (even after the application has been run once > > in an account)? I was very surprised by this behavior as every other X > > windows program that I have run manages to trigger the launch of > > Xquartz. In the case of xvfb-run, if Xquartz isn't already running, one > > gets the error… > > > > Xvfb failed to start > > I'm pretty sure this used to work as intended. > > I tried starting Xquartz by running xterm, then quit it, and xvfb-run > has been working after that. This was on Xquartz-2.7.7 on Yosemite. > > I haven't rebooted yet.
The expectation is that xvfb-run is sufficient to do whatever it has to do to get itself working. If that means triggering the launch of Xquartz, then it needs to do that, and I'm also surprised that running Xvfb would not trigger it. The xvfb-run script is just a wrapper around Xvfb itself that handles xauth, avoids race conditions when picking various arbitrary/dummy screen parameters, and graceful shutdown. Probably the simplest (or at least first) test would be to see if just "Xvfb :10" from the commandline fails. I don't have a 10.10 box to test. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
