New submission from hans.meine <hans_me...@gmx.net>:
For a long time, I wondered why opening Jupyter notebooks through nbopen always led to XQuartz starting. Now, I found the reason: nbopen uses webbrowser.py to open a web page, and webbrowser.py sees the `DISPLAY` variable being set and calls xdg-settings (which I installed via the xdg-utils port / MacPorts). Apparently, in order to be able to fire up XQuartz on demand and to allow people starting X11 applications, `DISPLAY` is set to a string like `/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.<somecode>/org.xquartz:0`. I am using Safari and find this starting of XQuartz undesirable (causes a delay, uses system resources, leads to a new running program in the Dock / task switcher). On the other hand I can totally understand that the code makes sense. As a workaround, I can unset DISPLAY, or uninstall xdg-utils (although it is useful, and may be a dependency of other ports), but I thought I should also bring it up here for discussion. ---------- components: Library (Lib), macOS messages: 386182 nosy: hans-meine, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: webbrowser.py triggers unwanted XQuartz startup type: resource usage versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43111> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
