how do I make x11/xQuartz stop opening up

Question

the past week or so, I've been having an issue where whenever I open iterm (and sometimes when I just open vim) xquartz/x11 will open. I have version 7.4.1941 of vim. How do I make it stop opening xquartz?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, each time I started vim, XQuartz would boot up.

The problem is clientserver

I recently reinstalled vim with clientserver, and it seems that that requires XQuartz.

If you install like this, XQuartz will start when vim is run:

brew install vim --with-client-server

You can check this with vim --version | grep clientserver. If there is a + before clientserver, it is installed, and the opposite if there is a - .

Solution: Remove clientserver

(unless you really need it)

Simply uninstall and install the default version.

# Given that it was installed with brew
brew uninstall vim 
brew install vim