

Finally when both problems were corrected, everything was fine. Thrashing ist also did not help because this previous unnecessary action. There you have it - initially things did not work because of this file, but I did not knew about this, then I did completely unnecessary 'launchctl unload', which of course did not help, but got forgotten. MacOSX folder), which contained only one value, which defined $DISPLAY as ":0". Now I started to go through these thrashed plist files and found this pesky ist file (from. Nothing seemed to help until I just tried this 'launchctl load' command and bingo! Then I found this thread and could pinpoint the problem to userspace (thanks to Bill Scott for the tip!) and started to search for possible plist files to thrash. Then I tried other system-level things as reinstalling XQuartz and searching for possible solutions with google to no avail. Then I tried among other things to disable launchd action for XQuartz, which (obviously) did not help (among other stupid options).
#Xquartz mac mountain lion upgrade
I did upgrade to 10.8 the first day it came out, installed XQuartz 2.7.2 and noticed, that X11 apps did not want to work. I think I succeeded in "reconstruction" of this chain of post-upgrade events, that ended up in "unnecessary" command as solution. Both users are generating the same output, but one has problem, while another one has not.įWIW. Same input did not produce any output when logged in as new user, which is confusing.Įdit: Sorry - tried wrong line on new user. opt/local/etc/mc/mc.ext: Open=if then dvisvga %f else (xdvi %f &) fi

opt/local/etc/mc/mc.ext: Open=(if test -n "" & test -n "$DISPLAY" then ( file://%d/%p &) 1>&2 else links %f || lynx -force_html %f || $ %f fi) 2>/dev/null opt/local/etc/mc/mc.ext: Open=if then mplayer -vo null -playlist %f else (xmms -p %f >/dev/null 2>&1 &) fi opt/local/etc/mc/mc.ext: Open=if then ogg123 %f else (xmms %f >/dev/null 2>&1 &) fi opt/local/etc/mc/mc.ext: Open=if then mpg123 %f else (xmms %f >/dev/null 2>&1 &) fi opt/local/etc/mc/mc.ext: Open=if then play %f else (xmms %f >/dev/null 2>&1 &) fi By default, X11 forwarding is not enabled on Mac Leopard, and from Mountain Lion on, Apple decided not to ship X11 with the OS. opt/local/etc/mc/mc.ext: Open=if then zgv %f else (gqview %f &) fi If you own a recent Mac computer and you realize that you cant start any GUI app from the cluster, even when you used the -X option with ssh then you may have to enable X11 Forwarding on MacOS. opt/local/etc/mc/mc.ext:# All X Apps if no DISPLAY $ grep -r DISPLAY /opt/local/etc /sw/etc /etc 2>/dev/null First one gives nothing, but second one does
