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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. Quit without warning: how? by pauljlucas · · Score: 1, Interesting
    ... option to quit X11 without presenting warning dialog ...
    How do you set this option? There's nothing under Preferences for it.
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  2. What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have by phpsocialclub · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What are some cool/usefull X11 apps that I can install on a OS X 10.2 machine

    I have already used fink to install Bluefish (a html editor), XMMS (mp3 player), and tkcvs (cvs client).

    and some games, scorched earth, etc.

    anyone have any good ideas of other stuff that I should be running on my laptop or desktop g4s

    1. Re:What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well KDE is pretty damned cool... I like running koffice...

  3. Full-screen mode? by semanticgap · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I tried Apple's X11, but couldn't figure out how to run it full-screen with WindowMaker. (I wouldn't need this had Apple provided virtual desktops that could be switched as fast as WindowMaker does it).... So I gave up and went back to XDarwin.

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  4. Re:Still randomly quits... by Drakino · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had similar issues, and sent my crash log to someone at Apple to look at. A few hours later, I had the response of "stop unsanity from patching X11". Aka, one of the hacks to OS X that I installed from Unsanity.com was causing problems. I pulled all of them out, and the last beta started working fine.

    I need to send the crash log over to those folks so they can narrow down what was happening.

  5. But does it have applescript support? by acomj · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have apples X and I use Xemacs. Is there a easy way to make emacs or any X application act like a regular apple application? (You click on the icon it goes. Drag document to icon and it starts..).

    I tried some quick applescript things but they didn't work. /Aram