Running bbedit from an XQuartz-launched terminal

[Galen Tackett]

I've been using xterm a good bit recently, running it from XQuartz.

I've found that trying to use a shell command to run bbedit doesn't work from xterm, although from a Terminal.app or iTerm.app window it does.

Here's what happens
$ bbedit x.x
You must allow `bbedit` to send events to the BBEdit application.
Use `tccutil reset AppleEvents` to reset the system's permissions, and try again

But 'tccutil reset AppleEvents' makes no difference.

I suspect this is not really a bug in bbedit, because nothing shows up in System Preferences under Automation's Privacy tab. Perhaps that's because xterm isn't a proper "Mac application" and so lacks a bundle ID, etc?

Does anyone know how to make this work?

[Charlie Garrison]

On 21 May 2021, at 11:41, Galen Tackett wrote:

I've found that trying to use a shell command to run bbedit doesn't work from xterm, although from a Terminal.app or iTerm.app window it does.

I know that bbedit works via ssh from another machine, so there should not be a restriction for using only Terminal or iTerm. I suggest trying to ssh to your machine and running a bbedit command, does the doc open in BBEdit or do you get an error. If you still get an error then the problem isn't related to xterm - if it does work, then I'm baffled, no idea why bbedit wouldn't work from xterm. I'm sure others here can comment.

-cng

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[jj]

Hi Galen,

This appear to work on my setup (Catalina).

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251065137?answerId=252016248022#252016248022

> 1) I run Apple Terminal, which works well under Catalina. 

> 2) from Apple Terminal I run xterm which activate XQuartz

> 3) Now XQuartz inherites the privileges of Apple Terminal and 

>     I can use it throughout the full Disk

> 

> This requires to let Terminal app on and XQuartz app on, 

> but it works.

1. Launch XQuartz

2. In Terminal.app launch xterm

      % xterm

3. In xterm on XQuartz

    % bbedit "hello world"

4. BBEdit is launched.

HTH,

Jean Jourdain