On Feb 13, 2017, at 15:14, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > I wrote too hastily about how I fixed XQuartz to cooperate with Inkscape (and > RStudio’s Rcmdr). > > I think I’ve tracked down the source of the XQuartz trouble to file > > ~/.xinitrc.d/90-gnome.sh > > which has contents: > > # make the freedesktop menu entries work > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/local/share > export XDG_DATA_HOME=/opt/local/share > export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/local/etc/xdg > > # enable sound > export ESPEAKER=localhost > > # use Apple's window manager > exec quartz-wm & > > # start GNOME > exec gnome-session > > (That file was installed as part of some macports gnome-related port, I > believe.) > > That apparently interferes with XQuartz; removing that .sh file (or just > giving it a different extension) allows XQuartz to function normally. > > Now the question is what port installed that file and what will happen > without the file.
I don't see any port installing that file, but I do see this wiki page recommending its creation: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/GNOME Maybe you followed those instructions at some point.
