Help - want to uninstall X11 - Quartz

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 05:49:32 UTC 2016


> On Dec 18, 2016, at 00:54, Diane Chan <chankirtan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Today downloaded XQuartz 2.7.11 and installed on OS X Sierra after prompting from my old version of CrossOver. How can I uninstall? I suspect it has interfered with the computer’s ability to establish network connection.

It hasn't.

> Please help. I’m not the most savvy computer user. :(  The FAQ (https://www.xquartz.org/FAQs.html) gives instructions how to uninstall using Terminal commands, but these seem to be tailored to Leopard. Are they also applicable to Sierra?
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> These are the instructions I’m referring to:
> 
> Uninstall (Snow Leopard or Later)
> XQuartz does not replace the system X11 on Snow Leopard, so you can go back to the Apple-provided X11.app rather easily. Just launch X11.app rather than XQuartz.app to get the older server. If you want to make Apple’s X11.app the default server (owning the launchd $DISPLAY socket), then you should disable the org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist as described in the first question. After logging out and back in, Apple’s X11.app will be default. If you still want to remove XQuartz.app from your system, you can do that with these two steps:
> launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
> sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
> sudo rm -rf /opt/X11* /Library/Launch*/org.macosforge.xquartz.* /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app /etc/*paths.d/*XQuartz
> sudo pkgutil --forget org.macosforge.xquartz.pkg

Yes, that is correct.


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