On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Alexander Hansen wrote:
> []
>> There was an official update of 10.4's X11 via Software Update. And on
>> Leopard a number of the system updates included files in the X11
>> distribution.
>
> I agree with Jack on the fact that the xquartz development improved the
> "official" X11. The latest softwareupdated X11 on Leopard has several
> bug fixes for the user interface from early xquartz releases. And the
> official X11 on Snow Leopard has all the fixes from xquartz before 2.4.0.
>
> This concerns, for example, the new copy-paste system, or the
> interaction with Spaces. And there is the wrapper script in
> /Applications/Utilities/X11.app that runs X11 in a correct login
> environment for all known login shells. This was the result of a
> collaborative effort on the x11-users and xquartz-dev lists, put into
> xquartz by Jeremy. And it is now in the system X11 on Snow Leopard.
>
> I doubt if such improvments of the user interface will still happen when
> xquartz lives in /opt/X11.
>
> --
> Martin
>
Martin,
I don't follow your last statement. My understanding is that X11
in Snow Leopard is already preconfigured to hand off to an X11 in /opt
if present (remember that Jeremy Huddleston is both X11 maintainer at
Apple as well as the packager of the X11 Xquartz updates as well as
being the maintainer of all of MacPorts x11 packages). If you install
X11 Xquartz under Snow Leopard, it will automatically use any improvements
to the user interface since the OS will consider it the new default
X11 location (in terms of the runnning X11).
Jack
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