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So how does it work?
Does anyone know how this clever trick works? My initial guess was that it was related to launchd. Since you can write simple plists that will launch when a port is queried, I first guessed that attempts by X11 applications to contact the DISPLAY port would trigger launchd to run X11.app. But I searched through /System/Library/LaunchDaemons and didn't find anything. Furthermore, DISPLAY isn't set before launching.
So how does it work?
I'd also like to know how it works. As far as I can tell, it only works for programs in paths that come installed (or can be installed) with OS X - such as
It doesn't work (for me at least) with X11 programs installed by Fink in
So how does it work?
In my experience X11 apps in /sw/bin DO startup from the finder.
So how does it work?
It works by a bit of a hack that Apple added to Finder back when X11 v1.0 came out with OSX 10.3.
So how does it work?
It does, and thanks for the info! Thanks also for OroborOSX. I still use it quite a bit. |
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