I'm trying to work around the lack of full screen in the current 10.5 versions of X11. I've tried the work arounds suggested on the apple X11 lists but they don't work well for me (uncontrollable focus grabbing, cut'n'paste not working, not really full-screen so problems with virtual desktops).
On my PPC TiBook runnig 10.5 I installed the latest xorg deb (6.8.2-1044) compiled on 10.4 and it works fine for everything I use. Problem solved. On my intel machine I tried the same trick, and it works (I'm using it right now) BUT the pointer icons are messed up. In particular, they are mostly white, or bg colour, and thus invisible in many windows. Some of them (the text selector in an xterm in particular) are also a few pixels to the right of where they should be. I have tried to change the pointer icons (window manager fvwm2 config instructions) but the white/bg bits and offset persist. I tried recompiling fvwm2 on 10.5, but that made no difference, so doesn't seem to be the source of the problem. Most of what I installed on this 10.5 machine came from debs compiled under 10.4, so maybe there is something else I should try rebuiling? But the very first black "X" as X11 starts full screen is a funny white and black thing, which suggests it is xorg itself... So, I tried recompiling xorg on 10.5 (copying the 10.4 info/patch files into my local tree) and it failed...the first error I think being gcc -c -Wall -Wpointer-arith -no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -I../.. -I../../exports/include -D__i386__ -D__DARWIN__ -DNO_ALLOCA -DCSRG_BASED -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -DXNO_MTSAFE_UNISTDAPI -DHAS_SNPRINTF -DLIBX11 -DPOSTLOCALELIBDIR=\"lib\" -Os -I../../lib/xtrans -DTCPCONN -DUNIXCONN -DHAS_STICKY_DIR_BIT -DHAS_FCHOWN -DIPv6 -DBSD44SOCKETS -DX11_t -DTRANS_CLIENT x11trans.c -o unshared/x11trans.o In file included from x11trans.c:80: ../../lib/xtrans/Xtranssock.c:1378: error: 'MAXHOSTNAMELEN' undeclared here (not in a function) x11trans.c:86: warning: alias definitions not supported in Mach-O; ignored make[4]: *** [x11trans.o] Error 1 I recall at some point soon after 10.5 was released I read someone else posting about having a pointer 3 pixels to the right but my searching hasn't turned up that post. This may indicate that these pointer problems are inrinsic to this version of xorg and recompling may not make any difference. So don't waste time on this... but if anyone has any success/failure/quick hints to share I'd appreciate it. many thanks, -- Viv ------------------------------------------------ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv Quantum Information Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
