This was addressed about four years ago in libxcb with:
commit d978a4f69b30b630f28d07f1003cf290284d24d8 (PR-16527722)
Author: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Apr 5 20:54:59 2014 -0700
xcb_open: Improve abstraction for launchd secure sockets
This changes away from hard-coding the /tmp/launch-* path to now
supporting a generic <path to unix socket>[.<screen>] format for
$DISPLAY.
Make sure you have libxcb-1.11 or later. If you're using XQuartz-provided
libs, just install the latest version.
> It sounds lie the libX11 (or libxcb) that your rxvt is linked against is old.
> Please make sure it is up to date, and things should work fine.
>
>> On Jan 10, 2018, at 6:08 AM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I've just upgraded from Lion, and I'm getting some strange problems with
>> X11. The worst is the fact that I can't open anything except an xterm.
>> Anything else results in:
>>
>> rxvt: can't open display /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.[...].xquartz:0
>>
>> I've already tried the obvious: xhost +localhost with no results.
>> I don't recall ever seeing this in X while back at OS X Lion. What's
>> going on here, and does anyone know how to fix it? X that can't open
>> X apps isn't X...and this is preventing me from using gvim, among other
>> X apps.
>>
>> While I'm here, a second (semi-related) question: has the terminfo for
>> xterms been screwed up since sometime after Lion? First issue is when I
>> use, say, vim, and exit, I expect to see the closed vim session still on
>> the screen, with my zsh prompt below it. Instead, I get the screen I had
>> before. I had that fixed (custom terminfo code) in Lion, and I used to
>> know what it was called ... but since my first cancer (which included
>> three brain tumors/surgeries and radiation to the brain) my memory isn't
>> so good.
>>
>> Any comments/suggestions greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> —jim
>>
>> --
>> THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0
>>
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>> ICBM / Hurricane: | can simulate what you were doing as well as you
>> 30.439947N 86.635177W | were doing it before you were interrupted.
>>
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