On Saturday March 24 2018 21:33:13 Jeremy Sequoia wrote: >> XQuartz comes with a feature to launch it automatically whenever an >> application attempts to read the DISPLAY env. variable. > >It isn't launched when something reads the DISPLAY envvar. It is launched >when something writes data to the socket that is referenced by the DISPLAY >envvar.
Sorry, indeed. >Just disable the startx LaunchAgent. Do NOT disable the privledged_startx >LaunchDaemon. OK, I'll bite: what happens when you do disable the privileged startx, and why am I not seeing any ill effects of doing so? I know that the X server is running as root on Linux, but that's not the case with XQuartz. As far as I can tell the privileged startx only creates a few directories (with sockets in them?) under /tmp, which anyone can do. Or is that because I use an admin account (as most XQuartz users, I'd presume)? R. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
