Comments on: OSX Leopard: Keep XTerm from starting with X11

By: Yuletide

Yuletide — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:52:32 +0000

Ah, I solved it. Just had to comment out the line “test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh” in my .profile file… meh

By: Yuletide

Yuletide — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:51:16 +0000

Any idea why opening a new terminal window would launch x11? It happens every time and is quite frustrating… but I can’t seem to find anything about this on the net! I’m going insane!! Help!

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:47:20 +0000

@dave: Yes, it does start on its own. I am not starting X11 by hand (and never have). But while starting automatically, X11 *also* fires up an instance of XTerm along with the program you would actually like to use, which gets nothing short of annoying after a while…

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:43:53 +0000

Yes, this is correct. For example, when I figure up the Gimp (my most-used X11 program), before this change, OSX would start X11 automatically, but it’d also open an xterm window that I had to close by hand then.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:40:18 +0000

Doesn’t this mean that you should never have to launch X11 manually (assuming that launchd recognises all your X11 apps)?

By: dave

dave — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:22:14 +0000

I thought the point was that you don’t need to launch X11 itself anymore, just launch any program that needs it and launchd wil take care of starting it, assuming it’s not started already, so the right way is to take X11 out of the dock and replace it with a program that actually needs it (or simply launch them from the terminal without starting X11 first)

see point 5 in the FAQ you point to for more.