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macOS Launch X11 GUI app via Applescipt/Xcode?

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noire anqa

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Aug 20, 2010
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Hi there,

Is there any way to run an X11 gui app by launching it from a native mac app, cocoa or applescript cocoa?

We're hoping to distribute a mac build.

Cheers.
 
balamw

balamw

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Aug 16, 2005
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FWIW MATLAB does this. Their launcher starts X11 and then opens the other Windows.

I suppose they may use system or NSTask to launch X11.

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jiminaus

jiminaus

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Dec 16, 2010
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X11.app will autolaunch as soon as a program tried to connect to it. You'll notice on Mac OS X that DISPLAY is not the usually 127.0.0.1:0, but a path to a filesystem socket. When this socket is opened X11.app will launch. Try catting the filesystem socket and you'll launch X11.app.
 
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