{"id":229,"date":"2003-10-26T01:06:29","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T06:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/10\/26\/x11-server-startup-weirdness-and-a-fix"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:56:05","slug":"x11-server-startup-weirdness-and-a-fix-in-panther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/10\/26\/x11-server-startup-weirdness-and-a-fix-in-panther\/","title":{"rendered":"X11 Server startup Weirdness (and a fix) in Panther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a161'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, when I upgraded to Panther my Dock shortcut to the X11 Server<br \/>\nbusted.  After fiddling around I noticed in the Consoloe that it was complaining<br \/>\nabout some unrecognized option when launching.   I found X11 in the<br \/>\nApplications directory and tried that but the same problem.   After scritching my head for a bit I ended up trying to start X from Terminal by just typing X.  Lo&#8217; and behold it worked!   But I just got an X server without much that was<br \/>\ninteresting.  So then I tried starting xterm from the Finder (Show in Finder<br \/>\non the X program brought up \/usr\/X11R6\/bin).<br \/>\n    Then the familiar little X11 icon popped up again and this one I ended<br \/>\nup keeping in my Dock and NOW things are working.   Not sure what exactly that did to fix it but it ended up fixing it.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s the beginning of the message I got from the Console:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nUnrecognized option: &#8211;xquartz-be-xinit<br \/>\nuse: X [:] [option]<br \/>\n-a #                   mouse acceleration (pixels)<br \/>\n-ac                    disable access control restrictions<br \/>\n-audit int             set audit trail level<br \/>\n-auth file             select authorization file<br \/>\nbc                     enable bug compatibility<br \/>\n-br                    create root window with black background<br \/>\n+bs                    enable any backing store support<br \/>\n-bs                    disable any backing store support<br \/>\n-c                     turns off key-click<br \/>\nc #                    key-click volume (0-100)<br \/>\n-cc int                default color visual class<br \/>\n-co file               color database file<br \/>\n-core                  generate core dump on fatal error<br \/>\n-dpi int               screen resolution in dots per inch<br \/>\ndpms                   enables VESA DPMS monitor control<br \/>\n-dpms                  disables VESA DPMS monitor control<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, when I upgraded to Panther my Dock shortcut to the X11 Server busted. After fiddling around I noticed in the Consoloe that it was complaining about some unrecognized option when launching. I found X11 in the Applications directory and tried that but the same problem. After scritching my head for a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1213,1214,1099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-osx","category-unix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}