I have a fair number of X programs working pretty well under XFree86
(and they worked with the XTools trial as well but I think XTools is
overpriced since MS Office is about the same price and a lot more
work--I do miss rootless though) and I can share the info if anyone
wants it. The amazing thing is that I set out to get Perl Tcl/TK
working, got it working with Python, and got a lot of other stuff to
work, and still haven't achieved my original goal. Anybody get Perl
Tcl/TK to work yet? How about PIL? PIL works and imports into Python but
the image decoders for display don't seem to link correctly.
Things that are almost there:
PIL (for Python)
-- it installs and loads images but Image.show() fails: cannot seem to
hook up the decoder for jpeg. Anyone?
Tcl/Tk for Perl.
-- Apple's Perl installation looks for things in non-standard places I
suppose. Tcl/TK is there and Python finds it, but Perl doesn't . Anyone
know where? Alternatively, I guess I could install Perl from source in
the standard way. Anyone know if the effective decoupling of Apple's
Perl "breaks" any OSX/Apple functionality?
Working are:
Xfree86 CVS snapshot from June 1
glib, GTK+, gnome libs - GTK programs compile well, haven't tried much
gnome yet though
Enlightenment (still my favorite for appearance even though it's a
resource hog)
Blackbox
Windowmaker
aterm (including pseudo transparency with Enlightenment)
Python 2.1 with Numeric, Pmw (Megawidgets)
Tcl 8.3/Tk8.3 (and working with Python 2.1)
A lot of Perl modules: Cryptographic ones, XML ones, Web ones,
MailTools, Math (including Matrices, Numerical methods, etc.)
