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Some unofficial improvements to X11 on Leopard

November 7th, 2007 by admin

No full screen yet, but some progress is being made with Apple’s X11, though not officially coming from Apple.com yet.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve posted source and binaries on Xdarwin.org for Xquartz 1.2a7. Since 1.2a6, the following issues have been resolved:

• JIS (Japanese) keyboards are now correctly detected by X11.
• Xvfb and Xnest now compile cleanly; I have not tested them, but binaries are available at http://people.freedesktop.org/~bbyer/x11app/
• The “offset-pointer”/”ghost window” bug with Spaces has been resolved correctly (this is my second attempt). This means you can now use the F8 function to zoom out and drag a window from one Space to another with your mouse. Unfortunately, due to a known issue in Spaces itself, you can not drag X11 windows to the edge of the screen to move them to the next screen.
• A focus problem was fixed — previously, clicking on an X11 window that was behind an Aqua window would not always bring the X11 window to the foreground (but clicking on any other X11 window usually would.) I’m sure I’ll be proven wrong, but at the moment I have fixed all of the focus problems that I know about.

…. Ben Byer CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer.

For more details, see the full posting at the X11 users list from Ben.

Tags: Leopard, unix, x11, xquartz — .

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