Re: Headless on Mac OS X

I'd like to thank Mariano, John, and Randal for giving me pointers, Please someone correct me if I am wrong but I believe it is *impossible* to run Squeak headless in a nice manner on Mac OS X with the ready made VMs that are available for download. LSBackgroundOnly - setting this property to "true" in the plist file seems to have no effect. Using "-headless" from the command line and specifying the path to the smalltalk image works like a charm but *only* from a terminal window... which is pretty useless... Because if I'm doing it there I might was well double click the .app bundle and have all the bells and whistles in a GUI environment. The idea is to use launchctl to control the startup and shutdown of the daemon Squeak process without a user even having to login. When I try to launch it this way (as the "appserver" user) I get this error in the unix system console: -headless: kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of session allowed for root and console user only After a bit of research, I realize that the "kCGErrorRangeCheck" happens whenever you use a Carbon framework. It pretty much is non- avoidable unless you are using pure cocoa or unix frameworks. The Carbon stuff calls initialization bits that require a window server. According to this link - http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html - A pure Cocoa version is in the works but not out now. Please, if someone hears my call enlighten me. It shouldn't be this hard. My current tact is to download the source for the VM and see if there are options to be set that disable the window server completely. Does this sound feasible? I hope so, it's the only shimmer of light I can grasp for. That or just build a linux box to run Squeak... Any and all tips appreciated, -- Aaron _______________________________________________ Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki