[gentoo-alt] prefix and X11 on a Mac?

[Michael Jinks]

File this under "problems I'll probably fix myself the moment I hit 'send'
on an email"...

I'm using prefix on my OSX laptop, typically by starting an xterm and
running startprefix. But when I do that, my $DISPLAY isn't inherited, so X
apps obviously don't run. In cases like that, my usual hack is to ssh in
with X11 forwarding (-Y), but my laptop isn't running sshd. More to the
point, that seems like the wrong way to address this issue; why have all
that overhead encrypting a connection to localhost? If memory serves, ssh
used to support an option for cipher "none", but I don't find that in any
manpages now.

There has to be a better way...?

Thanks.