On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Peter W. Draper
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> On Mon, 14 May 2012, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Peter W. Draper
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 4 May 2012, Jean-Baptiste Marquette wrote:
>>>
>
> It's not an X11 issue, just a hack in Skycat to avoid using X-shared memory
> when it isn't needed. This depends on the syntax used for the DISPLAY
> setting. OS X seems to (now) have it's own ideas on how to set that.
>
Oh yes. That was ages ago. OSX has a very clever approach to $DISPLAY
and if you follow the osx x11 mailing list there was a time with
(maybe leopard) when applications were failing all over the place
because they were parsing $DISPLAY or setting $DISPLAY rather than
simply leaving it to the X11 infrastructure. Then again, ssh X11
forwarding broke lots of things with the non-standard $DISPLAY.
$DISPLAY gets set like that so that X11 starts automatically on demand
the first time an X11 app does anything.
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Tim Jenness
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