On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:13 PM, David Favor <da...@davidfavor.com> wrote:
> As these are mutually exclusive someone clarify the differences. > > 1) It appears specifying a +quartz variant uses > http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ code > installed on a machine. Yes/No? > No. +quartz means use native Mac OS X graphics, not any X11 implementation. > 2) How does http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ relate to the quartz-wm port? > Specifically, > "port install quartz-wm" + quartz-wm --version produces version 1.3.1 > while the > XQuartz site shows version 2.7.4 + the XQuartz site implies quartz-wm > is part of > it's code ("The quartz-wm window manager included with the XQuartz > distribution...") > The individual ports comprising X11 in MacPorts are the same as the distribution at http://xquartz.macosforge.org, aside from differing paths. They also have the same maintainer. But individual components (xorg-server, quartz-wm, xterm, etc.) have their own version numbers, which are reflected in the port versions; you would have to read the release notes in the XQuartz distribution to see these for the dmg distribution. 3) Last. Seems like XQuartz is more up to date code than X11. Is there any > situation > where +x11 variant is preferred over +quartz? > This question is somewhat incorrect given that +quartz does not refer to an X11 distribution at all. But there are a number of Gtk+-based programs which, while they can build using the native or X11 versions of the toolkit, don't behave correctly with native graphics. (One example is that xchat using the native toolkit doesn't scroll chat windows properly.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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