Sorry for the noise. Things went back to normal after I removed the org.macports.startx launch agent (and a reboot). But it does look like macports adds its own launch agent for X!
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:35 PM, iulian dragos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:25 PM, iulian dragos <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 07:14, iulian dragos wrote: >>> >>>> I installed xorg from port, but now I would like to switch back to the >>>> Apple one. I tried uninstalling xorg, but my X applications complain: >>> >>> Define "switch". How did you "switch" to the MacPorts X11 in the first >>> place? Normally, MacPorts X11 is only running if you tell it to by opening >>> /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app. You can configure the system to >>> automatically open MacPorts X11. But if you did that, you'd know the >>> commands you entered to do that, and you could follow similar steps to >>> switch back to Apple's/Xquartz's. >> >> I didn't do anything special to make MacPorts the default X11 server. >> I was under the impression that it was always starting that one after >> I installed it. Given that so far I couldn't get anything to work from >> MacPorts, it's a bit hard to know exactly what X server it tried (and >> failed) to work with. >> > > Currently (after uninstalling xorg-server) when I run a gnome program >> I see an error (see the original message) that indicates it couldn't >> open the display. >> >> To reformulate: how can I make sure that X applications coming from >> macports can connect to Apple's X server? (which is already running) > > To make the discussion more concrete, here's what happens when running XFig: > > $ xfig > Error: Can't open display: /tmp/launch-zx2vZu/org.macports:0 > > And here's what I see in the system log (a bunch of them): > > 1/21/11 2:34:40 > PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[202] (org.macports.startx[62581]) > posix_spawn("/opt/local/bin/startx", ...): No such file or directory > 1/21/11 2:34:40 > PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[202] (org.macports.startx[62581]) > Exited with exit code: 1 > > any ideas? > > thanks, > iulian > >> >> thanks for your reply, >> iulian >> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> « Je déteste la montagne, ça cache le paysage » >> Alphonse Allais >> > > > > -- > « Je déteste la montagne, ça cache le paysage » > Alphonse Allais > -- « Je déteste la montagne, ça cache le paysage » Alphonse Allais _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
