On 2021-01-05, at 4:37 AM, George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 03:41, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2021-01-04, at 5:07 AM, George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Both X.org and macOS have been adding measures to beef up security, which > > was not > > much of an issue years ago. You need to start XQuartz "by the book" so > > that it runs > > with the needed privileges. > > > > Ok, what is starting XQuartz "by the book"? What's the proper way to start it > up? > > Just launch XQuartz from the Applications folder or run “open -a XQuartz”. > By default, > this should open an X terminal. The FAQ tells you how to change that > behaviour, and > has some other information about related scripts Hey, that works :-) System log has this interesting info after startup: Jan 5 10:53:38 keybounceMBP org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[19935]: expr: syntax error Jan 5 10:53:38 --- last message repeated 2 times --- Jan 5 10:53:38 keybounceMBP org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[19935]: xauth: file /Users/michael/.serverauth.19936 does not exist Jan 5 10:53:39 keybounceMBP org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[19935]: xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "keybounceMBP:0" in "list" command Jan 5 10:53:39 keybounceMBP org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[19935]: xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "keybounceMBP:0" in "add" command Jan 5 10:53:40 keybounceMBP X11.bin[19926]: NSURLConnection/CFURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9807) Jan 5 10:53:41 keybounceMBP org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[19935]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 Seeing math errors in the startup script (expr), and then seeing the "obvious" display name not work makes me concerned. $DISPLAY is, even under that xterm window, /tmp/launch-4XSd5t/org.macosforge.xquartz:0 Also, I thought this was how you got a window to show up on the second monitor: bash-3.2$ xterm -display :1 xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :1 And ... oh dear lord, can you please tell me how to make the default font size 24 point for normal text and 18 point for fixed-width? Or at least tell me which help command to start with? (Bonus if you tell me how to set font face/family as well :-) > > Are you using a fresh install of Mavericks? > > There is a collection of old bug reports that may be helpful: > > Try google with "site:https://github.com/XQuartz IPC failure: Operation not > permitted" > > Have you (or some application) set DYDL_LIBRARY_PATH "(without understanding > how it works)"? > Another bug report was traced to someone (or some application) replacing a > system utility with an "unsigned" > 3rd party program. Messing with the PATH variable could also result in > attempting to use an "unsigned" > utility. > > -- > George N. White III --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
