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Apple Releases Beta 3 of X11

Posted by pudge on from the running-programs-slowly-faster dept.

maxentius writes "Apple says the just released beta of X11 adds: pseudocolor (8-bit) visual plane support; option to quit X11 without presenting warning dialog; Command-Q keyboard shortcut to quit X11; Command-, to bring up preferences dialog; keyboard mappings with dead keys fixed; linking against libGL no longer results with multiple definitions of glGetColorTableEXT; locked files left behind in /tmp no longer block non-admin users from starting X11; windows can be resized by user to any size and not be limited by the Dock's height; dragging remotely hosted windows no longer causes crash; hardware accelerated scrolling in 16 bit mode now works; X server no longer crashes if application tried to retrieve data back from the framebuffer using XGetImage; bug fixes and other feature enhancements."

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  1. Re:jeez by NeuroKoan · · Score: 1, Funny

    To my knowledge the digit '1' is not a roman numeral. But I could just be an idiot.

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  2. Re:How much longer are we going to get betas? by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 3, Funny

    iSync 1.0 has been out for months.

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  3. Cool! by PrimeWaveZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can feel the difference in xMahJongg. Now if I could only get my ASCII porn stuff to look better under hardware acceleration, I'd be set. Oh well, something for the next update. Hehehe.

  4. Re:What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have by capmilk · · Score: 4, Funny

    xbill, xtank and xgalaga are pretty cool. I mean, you wanted "killer" apps. ;)