Re: x11 launching on startup

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 3, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Arlo Breault wrote:

> On Tuesday, 3 April, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Arlo Breault <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> For a reason unknown to me, x11 launches every time I start octave. If I 
>>> recall correctly, it used to only do that on demand, when plotting. I'm on 
>>> OS X running GNU Octave, version 3.6.1, installed w/ homebrew.
>> 
>> Octave requires linking to a window management system in order to determine 
>> the size if the display. On MacOS, either X11 or Carbon will work. It 
>> appears the homebrew maintainer choose to link against X11.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Ok, but does it need to launch x11 at startup? Or can it wait till I actually 
> try to plot something? Thanks.

The screensize is needed during initialization to set the "screensize" property 
for the root graphics object.

I suggest you ask the Homebew  mainttainer for Octave to use Carbon instead.

Ben