On Jan 5, 2006, at 00:41, Wade Tinney wrote:
Ok, so I noticed when I installed Tiger that it came with X11, so I
went ahead and installed it.
I know what it is (for running X11 programs like OpenOffice), but what
can ya'll tell me about it. Is it like running applications under
Classic? (I don't see a control panel for it where you can turn it on
or off.)
Where can I find other X11 software packages?
X11.app is, specifically, a server for the X Window System. The X
Window System (which I shall call X11 for short) is a remote windowing
system. It allows the execution of an application to be abstracted
from the display of that system. Put simply, you can "run here and
display over there."
X11 is the standard windowing system of most Unix systems - think
Display PDF on OS X, and Display PostScript on NeXTSTEP. It has been
ported to probably every modern OS, and with that server portability
comes application portability: applications written for X11 can be
compiled on any system with X11 libraries, and they can be displayed on
any system capable of running an X11 server.
What X11.app gives you is that X11 server - the ability to display X11
apps on your OS X system. Those applications can run on your system,
or they can be run remotely and displayed to your system.
The GIMP is an example of an X11 application. xterm, xeyes, xlogo, and
all of the other x* programs are also X11 applications. (These are
called X11 clients, in X Window System speak.)
As for where to get others besides The GIMP, the fink project probably
has some, though I try to be an OS X purist and try to stay away from
those. Don't ask me why, for I don't really have a good answer. ;)
Daniel
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