Thank you all for your efforts. I'm still not getting it.
Thanks, Ken On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 1:43 AM Christopher Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > On 1 Dec 2023, at 6:52 am, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi; > > So what is the proper way for X to be started? > > > > If properly configured the X11 server will automatically start on demand. You > really should never need to manually start it. > > > Do I need to manually create a launch entry like I have for the > emacs server? If so, what is the invocation? What is being invoked? > xorg-server? > > Now that the DISPLAY is null, invoking xpdf fails even after an open > -a /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app, complaining about the DISPLAY > variable setting > > > Having DISPLAY null is as bad as setting it to :0.0 > > It should look something like what I posted before > > $ echo $DISPLAY > /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.TwDg8TRtvI/org.macosforge.xquartz:0 > > This is the launchd socket, the magic if you like, that triggers it to be > started on demand. > > Please try as I posted in my first mail completeing uninstalling org-server, > then re-install it. Then log out and back in again (this is important) and > then see. If it is still null then you have something else setting that and > you need to figure out what. > > Chris > > > Thanks, > Ken > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:47 PM Kenneth Wolcott > <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Ryan; > > It was defined in ~/.zprofile and created by MacPorts in 2021 :-) I > commented it out. I'll source the .zprofile and see what happens. > > Thanks, > Ken > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:23 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > > On Nov 30, 2023, at 16:01, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > > 3. My DISPLAY environment variable is set to ":0"; > I do not know where this variable is not being set properly or is > being overridden. > > > You need to figure out where DISPLAY=:0 is being set, and remove the code > that does so. It's probably in your shell startup file. Depending on which > shell you use, there are many possible names for startup files in your home > directory: .zshrc, .zprofile, .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc. > > Setting DISPLAY=:0 was correct in Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier but it has not > been correct since Mac OS X 10.5. > >
