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So, those of you who are running Leopard’s X11 may be interested to check out the download page at MacOS Forge which contains all the new changes made to Xquartz/X11, etc. since the release that made it into Leopard. They even have nice .pkg installers for people who want to install the latest versions […]
Tags: installers, Leopard, x11, xquartz — .Juan Cabanela writes of his Leopard upgrade. Of particular note, there’s a beta of ds9 that seems to play nicer with the way the DISPLAY variable in X11 in Leopard.
Also, for people interested in patching X11 to the latest updates ahead of Apple’s official deployment via software update there is a “quick […]
Tags: apple, ds9, Leopard, x11 — .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 […]
Tags: Leopard, unix, x11, xquartz — .You can subscribe and look at the archives to Apple’s X11 User’s mailing list here. Ben Byer has been doing some heroic all hours work to try and fix some problems in X11 in Leopard, mostly from switching code bases and other issues. It’s pretty impressive to see Apple’s staff interacting directly with […]
Tags: apple, Leopard, unix, x11 — .Updated at the bottom | Second Update
So, here’s the quasi-official word from Ben Byer, one of Apple’s x11 developers on Apple’s x11-users list.
Biggest architectural change in Leopard for X11: Switched from XFree86 codebase (based on, IIRC, X11R6.8) to X.org codebase (X11R7.2) Biggest user-visible change: launchd support for X11. The only […]
Tags: Leopard, unix, x11 — .If you have any issues getting IDL to properly record/recognize the cursor position or mouse clicks, you may want to try this command in the terminal
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true
Frank Varosi here at UF gave me this tip, which he found at this french site. What this command does is it […]
Tags: apple, IDL, Leopard, x11 — .Welcome to the Mac IRAF FAQ. If your question is not here, contact me, and I’ll see if I can help you out or add the question here. I’m always open to suggestions for things for the web site. Use your browser’s find feature, command-F, to search the questions for a word […]
Tags: apple, command line, IRAF, unix, x11 — .