X11 is a windowing framework that MIT did extensive development for in the 1990's It is client server based, and is almost always associated with UNIX systems. All windowing systems I have heard of for the LINUX operating system are X11 based.
One "neat thing about X11 is that there are several "WIndow Managers" out there GNOME, FVWM, VWM, Motif. Each of these have different buttons for minimizing and zooming windows and exactly how it is determined which window takes input from the keyboard. So, X11 is good if you are working with graphical programs from a Linux or Solaris system, or have ported LInux software to your macintosh. I don't believe that Voice Over interacts with X11 at all, but since there are API's that say put text x in Window y, and Linux now has ORCA or some other screen readers it is quite possible I am mistaken. I have not accessed an X11 application from my Macintosh in 5 years. Best wishes, Jonathan Jonathan C. Cohn [email protected] On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Dear listers, > > What I know so far. From what I googled, x11 is software that gives you a > framework with display support, and also a rich set of input devices. Using > x11, a client program can be built. All that is often used to access remote > computers. Where you log in to your mac being the only user, there are other > computers that you don't need to sit behind, if you want to use them. > Instead, you log in over a network or over the internet, and you get time > cycles from a remote machine, allocated to your programs that you use. Not > only you, but a lot of users can be logged in to such a remote machine, each > over their own internet connection, each user running their own programs, > simultaneous with the other users. Such a remote machine is called a time > sharing computer. Correct so far? > > Why is x11 installed by the lion installer, and if an application is built > using x11, is it accessible by voiceover then? > Paul. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries?hl=en.
