Hi All,
I had an off-list question about this, too, so I'll post my reply:
X11 is an implementation of the X Window System that allows you to
run applications that follow these guidelines on different machines.
It works with graphics as well as text, so that someone who logged
into a remote machine through an xterm (the analogue to a terminal
window that supports X11) could run a drawing program on the remote
machine and have the results displayed on his computer. Or, he could
run a text processing program on the remote machine, and have the
output displayed on his local machine. Because of the graphical
interface support, it's not something we use with VoiceOver.
Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:31 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
it's the front end to th unix system. it does not work well with
voiceover.
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What is x11? It would be useful to know. Thanks, Simon
On 6 Aug 2008, at 17:58, Esther wrote:
Hi Hayden,
If you're running Leopard X11 should already be installed on your
machine unless you ran a custom install to explicitly exclude it.
Bring up Finder and type Command-Shift-G (for "Go to Folder"). Then
type "/usr" without the quotation marks but with the slash before
usr and then carriage return. Check that there is a folder for X11.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Hayden Smith wrote:
Hi there,
I have a pre-configured macbook and I'm attempting to install X11 -
as Open Office requires. As I am running OSX10.5, I would've
assumed it was in my utilities folder which it isn't. Therefore, I
attempted to install it from the optional installs which it was
disabled. I then attempted to locate a recete which again, I could
not locate. Does anyone know what my problem might be here - as the
open office install is assured that it is not installed and yet I
am unable to do so.
Cheers
