In Leopard, X11 is now launched on demand by launchd, which means it's now started automatically any time you start an X application. This is a very good thing, but it means that you may have to fix your configuration files. In particular, launchd is now in charge of setting the DISPLAY variable, so if you manually set it (say, in ~/.bashrc or ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist), your X apps will be unable to find the server. To make things work properly, just don't touch the DISPLAY variable at all in your init scripts.Also, this means you shouldn't keep X11.app in your Dock. If you launch it by clicking on its Dock icon, you'll end up with another X11 icon in the dock. (For reference, here's a very informative post on the subject from Apple's x1...

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