On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 20:17, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering the same thing, as well as: what is the big deal with > running under X11 on the Mac? I'm not a daily OSX user, but I've played > around with OSX on the Mac some years ago. Was it OpenOffice that ran that > way? Anyway, while somewhat annoying, no doubt, in terms of having to start > an application that seemingly doesn't have anything to do with what you're > actually trying to run, it wasn't that big a deal in my eyes. But my eyes > aren't the same as those of a hardcore Mac user, so... > > Alexey
Yes, it works, but X11 applications behave and look very differently than native Mac apps: widgets look wrong, menu bar placement is wrong, mousing and keyboard conventions are wrong, drag and drop hardly works, copy and paste works differently, fonts render differently, etc. I used to run my Emacs under X11 during the transition time when Emacs was switching form Carbon to Cocoa and the Cocoa code was still pretty buggy. It felt a little like running Classic apps next to OS X apps. (When this was still possible.) Ugly, but not impossible. Also, I've found Apple's X11 is pretty oddball in places. For example when applications are running remotely but displaying locally, the keyboard events get totally FUBARed on their way to the remote app. // Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
