Nick Reich
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Wed Jun 14 08:41:25 JST 2006
Just to close the loop on this, the ~/.Rprofile solution seems to
work just fine. The other solution (while probably slightly
preferable since it would take care of all Emacs processes) seemed a
little more complicated and I haven't tried it yet.
Many thanks to you both!
Nick
On Jun 13, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 13.06.2006 um 16:53 schrieb Nick Reich:
>>
>>> Are there other modifications I need to make for the X11 server
>>> to be
>>> recognized by CarbonEmacs?
>>
>> It seems DISPLAY must be set in the process environment of Carbon
>> Emacs. So it would be needed set in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist ...
>
> I must have forgotten how I solved the problem, it was some time ago.
>
> I am sure Peter's suggestion below makes sense. It seems to have the
> advantage that X11 will work with all Emacs stuff, not just R.
> However, I am certain this is not how I did it.
>
> After going through my configuration files I think the following id
> the solution: create (or modify) the file ~/.Rprofile, to contain
> something like
>
> if(Sys.getenv("DISPLAY") == "")
> Sys.putenv("DISPLAY" = ":0.0")
>
> The reason why you do not get an X11 window after modifying your
> DISPLAY setting is probably because the default plotting device was
> set up as you started R, but after ~/.Rprofile has been read. I would
> assume that the following would work from an R session
>
> R> Sys.putenv(DISPLAY = ":0.0")
> R> x11()
>
> since it specifically asks for an X11 device. What you get out of
> the .Rprofile is just that your default plot device gets altered.
>
> If this still does not work, I must look through my configuration
> again ... :)
>
> /Kasper
>
>>
>> You can modify ~/.xinitrc to write DISPLAY into ~/.MacOSX/
>> environment.plist when X11 is launched, and delete it when X11 quits:
>>
>> defaults write ${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment "DISPLAY" $DISPLAY #
>> near the beginning
>> ...
>> ( quartz-wm ; defaults delete ${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment
>> "DISPLAY" ) # last line best
>>
>> You would need to launch Carbon Emacs after X11 was launched. In case
>> you're the only user on the Mac you can invoke the line
>>
>> defaults write ${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment "DISPLAY" :0
>>
>> once and for the time following DISPLAY will be set in all Quartz
>> applications launched afterwards.
>>
>> --
>> Greetings
>>
>> Pete
>>
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