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On 10/27/10 9:53 AM, Eduardo Pestana wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Dear Alexander, thanks.
> 
> Can both  apple's X11.app and XQuartz2.5.3 both be installed?
> In the XQuartz2.5.3 webpage says
> 
> 
>           Default X11 Server (Snow Leopard Only)ΒΆ
>           
> <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.5.3#DefaultX11ServerSnowLeopardOnly>
> 
>     If this is your first time installing XQuartz on Snow Leopard, you
>     may wish to logout and log back in. This will update your DISPLAY
>     environment variable to point to XQuartz.app rather than X11.app. If
>     you would prefer to keep using X11.app as your default server (you
>     can still launch XQuartz.app manually), you'll want to disable
>     /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist using
>      launchctl(1)
>     
> <http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/launchctl.1.html>.
> 
> 
> In an earlier email you wrote
> 
>     We don't support Xquartz on 10.6--our packages aren't supposed to build
>     against it, anyway.
> 
> 
> Will always fink simply ignore XQuartz, as seems implied by your
> statement above?
> 

Theoretically, yes.

> I ask these two questions because there is port in the Huntsville
> Macintosh Users Group (http://www.hmug.org) of gnuplot.  Up to
> now ----with 10.5.8, I have not yet jumped 10.6:  I installed
> 10.6.4 in copy of my hard disk on an external disk drive---- I have
> been able to use fink's and hmug's gnuplot with no problem.
> 
> Do I have to
> 
>     ...disable /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
>     using  launchctl(1)
>     
> <http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/launchctl.1.html>.
> 
> 
> 
> for fink applications that use X11 to work OK?  It
> seems (Xquartz's quoted text) that each time I log in
> (or restart the machine??) the "DISPLAY environment variable"
> is set to point to XQuartz.
> 
> Best regards and thanks again,
> Eduardo
> 
> 
>  
> 

You shouldn't need to.  I think you can display using Xquartz, but have
applications built against libraries in /usr/X11.

That being said, I'm not doing it myself, so I really don't know.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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