Apple Releases Beta 3 of X11

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."

Comments

Re:Quit without warning: how?

[CableModemSniper]

Well, if you would read their FAQ, you might've noticed this:
Added an option to quit X11 without presenting warning dialog : "defaults write com.apple.x11 no_quit_alert true". See man page for Xquartz for more details.

Re:Quit without warning: how?

[aberkvam]

RTFM.

From the FAQ:

Added an option to quit X11 without presenting warning dialog : " defaults write com.apple.x11 no_quit_alert true". See man page for Xquartz for more details.

And from the man XQuartz page:

CUSTOMIZATION

Xquartz can also be customized using the defaults(1) com-
mand. The available options are:

defaults write com.apple.x11 enable_fake_buttons true
Equivalent to the -fakebuttons command line
option.

defaults write com.apple.x11 fake_button2 modifiers
Equivalent to the -fakemouse2 option.

defaults write com.apple.x11 fake_button3 modifiers
Equivalent to the -fakemouse3 option.

defaults write com.apple.x11 keymap_file filename
Equivalent to the -keymap option.

defaults write com.apple.x11 no_quit_alert true
Disables the alert dialog displayed when attempt-
ing to quit X11.

defaults write com.apple.x11 depth depth
Equivalent to the -depth option.

Re:What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have

[eMilkshake]

Well, grab yourself some fink and then fink commander and look for all those gnome things you used to love.

But, you'll definately want to grab LyX. Then, wonder off and get TeXShop and start churning out some TeX to amaze your friends with your superfine equation-writing sk1llz.

Hardware Accelerated XDarwin coming

[dochood]

I wonder how this beta will compare with the hardware-accelerated X-Darwin that is coming (4.3)...

The last XDarwin would run KDE 3.0.7 just fine, but the Apple beta would freeze the whole machine when I ran it... that's the primary reason I want X11 (and for Gimp...)

I'm dowloading the new Apple beta now...

dochood

ghostview, rasmol, texmac ,gimp, xemacs, tex2im

[goombah99]

ghostview. currently I have not found any programs as good as ghostview for manipulating eps files without losing resolution.

rasmol is the workhorse molecular graphics program

texmac is TeX with a really nice realtime wysiwyg, pallete and menu driven setup.

gimp is the Gnu answer to photoshop. about as powerful though a little less freindly and fast.

tex2im turns TeX equations into graphics. I use this with Keynote as an equation creator. (there are some other solutions too). well its not an X app but the other programs that do this are.

Fink Support

[Dunedain]

Having run into this last night, please be aware that Fink's system-xfree86 package doesn't support Apple X11 0.3 yet. I'm sure that support will come soon, but it was awfully disconcerting pulling a powerbook out of its box, grabbing X11, the SDK, and Fink, and watching it mysteriously fail.

Re:What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have

[JJSpreij]

Then, wonder off and get TeXShop

TeXShop runs just fine without X11 ;-)

Re:What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have

[shayborg]

GIMP is a great basic image editing app. LaTeX is very useful as well, as is Ghostview. (I never could get it working in Mac OS 9.) AxyFTP is also a solid, if unspectacular, FTP client, and is a good choice if you're familiar with WS_FTP.

-- shayborg