On 1/7/03 9:12 PM, "Hisashi T Fujinaka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed:
> The questions I've seen that are overly asked are incredibly simple, like > "is it working," or "is system-xfree86 working?" > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Chris Devers wrote: > >> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Rui Carmo wrote: >> >>> I know this is OT in a Fink list, but is there a FAQ being compiled >>> about Apple's X11 "per se", or rather, all the issues related just to >>> it? >> >> Has Apple's X11 been out long enough for any Q.'s to be F. A.? >> >> In any case, it seems like the Fink developers are on top of things here. >> Just keep an eye on the site & the list, follow any guidlines there, and >> be sure to run a 'fink selfupdate-cvs' frequently so that any changes to >> Fink are available to you. >> >> Once we get some more Q's being A. F., I'm sure they'll be arranged into >> the conventional order & put in a public place for examination :) It is working well for me. So is (was) system-xfree86. However, I have gotten X11 (apple) to work fine on top of fink's xfree86 build (at least for now) using Jeff Whitaker's method. He posted this earlier today to the fink-devel list (see my notes below): > ------ Forwarded Message > From: Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:43:10 -0700 (MST) > To: Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] fink xfree86 and Apple X11 > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: > >> On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: >> >>> Apple's X11 will work with fink xfree86-4.2.1.1 on 10.2.3. I tested this by >>> installing xfree86-base, xfree86-rootless (and shlibs), then copying over >>> /Applications/X11.app, /usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz, /usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm and >>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libapplexp.1.0.dylib from an Apple X11 installation. Double >>> click on the X11 icon in /Applications, and voila, quartz-wm fires up. Not >>> as fast as running the full Apple installation though, but I suspect once >>> xfree86 4.3 is released there won't be a noticeable difference. Would be >>> nice if someone would package up just those files from Apple's X11 , as >>> alternative to Oroborus X. >> >> There's at least a few more files too... the libdps (display >> postscript) stuff, isn't standard, as far as I'm aware... > > Maybe not, but it appears to work (as far as I can tell) without it. > > -Jeff > > -- > Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 > NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 > 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw > Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > > ------ End of Forwarded Message Buyer beware. I actually am using xfree86-base-threaded-4.2.1.1-3 and xfree86-rootless-threaded-4.2.1.1-3 . The new OpenGL graphics make my apps freakin' scream. It's incredible. D ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
