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Run Aqua apps from X11 after booting in console mode
Authored by: Graff on Nov 10, '03 11:41:48AM

How did you get this to work? I did exactly as you said and ran the X11 executable with the command:
/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11

I got a graphical environment, but it was only a blue screen and an arrow cursor that I could move around. Nothing else. I couldn't even quit out of the environment to try again (I tried control-x, control-z, etc.)

Is there some special way you need to launch the X11 executable so that you retain a command line, such as:
/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 &

Am I missing something else?

Not only that but many of my commands were skipping around the screen in the command-line environment. I would do a ls and it would hop to 1/2 way up the screen to do the listing. I would do a man and it would overwrite itself. Very odd, should I have some special kind of terminal set for that environment? I currently have my TERM environment variable set to xterm-color.



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Run Aqua apps from X11 after booting in console mode
Authored by: zoldar256 on Nov 10, '03 12:14:12PM

Depends on your xinitrc. Check to see that in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc you run other apps after X11 is opened. The default is to run xterm before the window manager.



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disable fast user switching
Authored by: matx666 on Nov 10, '03 12:36:34PM

one more thing.

to log into console, disable fast user switching



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What about from a remote machine?
Authored by: tuatara on Nov 11, '03 07:13:43PM

I don't have two networked Macs to try this, but it seems to me this method should work to allow X forwarding. I'd love to be able to run a user gui session on a remote box.

I'll try this at home tonight connecting to my Mac from a Linux machine, although I'm sure that won't work. But could you connect from another Mac? Somebody keen to try?

(You'll need to allow X connections, and probably enable ssh forwarding. connect with ssh -X ... there are probably instructions on this site somewhere, but I don't have time to look right now.)

My suspicion is this is the groundwork for a feature not quite ready for prime time... NeXT used to have a network window server. I'm intrigued!



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