diff -r 88b769ae99c7 -r 72d194129803 src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/java_props_md.c
--- a/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/java_props_md.c	Thu May 02 10:48:56 2019 -0700
+++ b/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/java_props_md.c	Fri May 03 17:06:42 2019 -0700
@@ -398,9 +398,6 @@
 #ifdef MACOSX
     // Always the same Toolkit on Mac OS X
     sprops.awt_toolkit = "sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit";
-
-    // check if we're in a GUI login session and set java.awt.headless=true if not
-    sprops.awt_headless = isInAquaSession() ? NULL : "true";
 #else
     sprops.awt_toolkit = "sun.awt.X11.XToolkit";
 #endif