Uninstall XQuartz X11 Application in Mac OS X – XQuartz X11 removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall XQuartz X11 apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall XQuartz X11 completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling XQuartz X11 application?

Uninstalling XQuartz X11 in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the XQuartz X11 you simply need to drag & drop the XQuartz X11 application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the XQuartz X11 from your machine.

XQuartz X11 Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of XQuartz X11 application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. XQuartz X11 supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the XQuartz X11 Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of XQuartz X11 is not that easy, you need to find all the location where XQuartz X11 has saved the files. Some of the location where XQuartz X11 would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall XQuartz X11 completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the XQuartz X11 Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall XQuartz X11 & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the XQuartz X11 application process running then quit it, make sure that XQuartz X11 processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the XQuartz X11 name.
Searching "XQuartz X11" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the XQuartz X11 app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.