Hey all,
This sounds pretty straightforward. I'll switch
this machine over to Apple's X11 from the CD.
Thanks globules, Ryan, for the sound advice, and
the details of getting the ports updated, etc.
Off subject... if anyone has a used LEGAL copy of
PhotoShop they would like to sell us we are in the
market for one. Must be legal!
Thanks again,
Skip
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007, at 01:01, Skip Evans wrote:
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Well, ok, that might work too. Though Apple's X11 is really the
easiest, the fastest and IMHO the best way to go.
I got XFree86 loaded and I guess sort of working, but it seems pretty
awkard. I apparently had to start XDarwin separately, which then
opened three or four terminals right away, and then a code editor like
Bluefish took forever to open, leaving all these terminals open...
...yuck.
Would Apple's X11 be better than this, as you say above? If it is
faster than I'll go ahead and move XFfree86 aside and get X11 off my
install disks.
With Apple's X11, you still have to open an app (X11.app in this case)
before you can use X11 software. Or, from the normal (non-X) Terminal,
you can type "open-x11 foo" to open X11.app and then open foo within it.
That's on Tiger; Leopard may be different.
I don't use Bluefish or really any other X software so I can't speak to
its performance.
I did notice, when using XFree86 and XDarwin once, all the unrequested
xterms it opened, the weird window frames it used, the weird cursor it
showed, the unfamiliar (to a Mac user) focus-follows-mouse behavior, and
various other weirdisms which aren't present with Apple's X11.
If you want to now switch to Apple's X11, you'll have to "sudo port -f
uninstall XFree86", and once you install Apple's X11User.pkg (from Mac
OS X DVD) and X11SDK.pkg (from Xcode disk image), you'll probably also
have to rebuild all ports that linked against the X libraries ("sudo
port -ncuf upgrade foo" where foo is one such port; repeat for all such
ports). If you don't know which ports those are, just reinstall them as
you start encountering error messages about mismatched library versions.
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