Re: xvfb-run oddity

Daniel.
      Opened a bug upstream as http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/2067.
                  Jack

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
>      On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:57:54 -0800, Alexander Hansen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/17/14, 4:33 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>> >
>   > >       Is it expected that invoking xvfb-run is insufficient to trigger
>> > the launching of Xquartz (even after the application has been run once
>> > in an account)? I was very surprised by this behavior as every other X
>> > windows program that I have run manages to trigger the launch of
>> > Xquartz. In the case of xvfb-run, if Xquartz isn't already running, one
>> > gets the error…
>> >
>> > Xvfb failed to start
>>
>> I'm pretty sure this used to work as intended.
>>
>> I tried starting Xquartz by running xterm, then quit it, and xvfb-run
>> has been working after that.  This was on Xquartz-2.7.7 on Yosemite.
>>
>> I haven't rebooted yet.
>
>   The expectation is that xvfb-run is sufficient to do whatever it has
> to do to get itself working. If that means triggering the launch of
> Xquartz, then it needs to do that, and I'm also surprised that running
> Xvfb would not trigger it. The xvfb-run script is just a wrapper around
> Xvfb itself that handles xauth, avoids race conditions when picking
> various arbitrary/dummy screen parameters, and graceful shutdown.
> Probably the simplest (or at least first) test would be to see if just
> "Xvfb :10" from the commandline fails. I don't have a 10.10 box to test.
>
>   dan
>
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