I did use Tiger's X11 for quite a while under Leopard. Your success rate will probably depend on whether you are using intel or ppc.
On my ppc machines I simply installed the xorg deb I had from fink on Tiger, then dropped in the quartzwm binary from Tiger's X11, as I had been doing on Tiger. I created a suitable xorg.info in my local fink tree to persuade fink to do this. That was several months ago now, so I can't guarantee it still works, but it worked well when it did, and many fink apps didn't need recompiling between Tiger and Leopard. On intel that didn't work. I don't remember why, it might have been the "yellow cursor bug", it might have been library incompatibilities as well. I really did have to install Tiger's X11 and then the yellow cursor patch. There are probably some posts about this from me and others in the archives of this list. I had significantly more problems with fink apps and compatibility on intel, so much so that I have been reluctantly using the newest xquartz and Spaces for some time. It is usable now, which it certainly wasn't when Leopard first came out, but it still doesn't work as well for me as the full screen xorg with fvwm2 I was using under Tiger. I can't go back to Tiger, my intel machines don't run Tiger. If they did I probably would until full-screen X works under Leopard. -- Viv On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Alexander Hansen wrote: > You might also think about VirtualBox if money is an issue--that's free. >> > > > I'm honestly not sure how using Tiger's X11 on Leopard is > accomplished. I don't know if people just copy X11.app from Tiger and > use that with Leopard's X11, or if they remove Leopard's X11 and > install Tiger's from its install media. Hopefully someone reading may > have done this or at least know of a link. My workflow doesn't > require fullscreen X right now, so I haven't bothered (and I've got a > Linux virtual machine in any case). > > On Sep 30, 2008, at 3:43 PM, David Albers wrote: > >> good old linux. i don't miss it with x11 fullscreen, but i certainly >> would have to looking into using parallel if i couldn't use >> fullscreen... > >> >> >> so, let me get this straight, i can use my tiger version of x11 on >> leopard? is this right? how do i update my tiger to leopard >> without mangling my current version of x11? won't upgrading the >> developers tools replace x11? >> >> thanks alex, >> dave >> >> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:30 PM, David Albers wrote: >>> >>>> hey everybody, i have a quick question. i have been using tiger >>>> because >>>> apple's x11 doesn't (maybe didn't) work with leopard very well, in >>>> particular, apple's x11 didn't support full screen mode under >>>> leopard. >>>> so... is there a solution to this problem? if i wanna use >>>> leopard and i >>>> wanna have x11 with fullscreen working, what would i have to do? >>>> best, >>>> dave >>> >>> My understanding is that's on the to-do list for the unofficial X11 >>> from macosforge.org ; and presumably therefore later on for the >>> official X11. >>> >>> But for now: >>> Some people have been using Tiger's X11 on Leopard (maybe just the >>> X11.app server--I'm not exactly sure since I don't do it). I've >>> heard tell of someone else modifying the package description for >>> Fink's xorg package to make it visible on Leopard (that's not hard >>> to do). >>> >>> Or one could install Linux. :-) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ________________________________________________ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv tel: +44 113 343 4864 Physics and Astronomy Quantum Information Group University of Leeds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
