I would like to have the choice of using either MacOS X11 or Fink X11
or both, depending on my experience with them. And you should be
likewise able to make your own choices based on your experience.
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On Jun 1, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Perry Wagle wrote:
Anyone know why the paths can't be changed? I've installed X11 (pre
XFree86)
on many machines (though not recently), and never had problems not
using
the default paths.
Do you mean the installation paths?
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There seems to be some confusion here.
Apple's X11 for Panther works just fine and is quite stable. Most users will
be quite happy with this option and won't need to install Fink's xfree86
package.
The instructions about removing Fink probably need to be updated, to point
out that you would
On Jun 1, 2004, at 6:01 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Apple's X11 for Panther works just fine and is quite stable.
I respectfully disagree. The Apple X server seems to core dump
in my environment and usage patterns with great regularity. The
Fink X11 does not.
YMMV
Tony
Tony Li writes:
And, best of all, the Fink X11 is MUCH more stable.
And slower, and less interoperable with OSX itself. Or has
Fink's X11 made strides in those areas? I switched to Apple's
X11 because it was MUCH more responsive and had MUCH better
support for OSX's clipboard.
I also
4.4 seems to be of comparable speed to Apple's X11, and can use the
quartz window manager, too.
On Jun 1, 2004, at 9:30 AM, Viktor Haag wrote:
Tony Li writes:
And, best of all, the Fink X11 is MUCH more stable.
And slower, and less interoperable with OSX itself. Or has
Fink's X11 made strides
Hi Perry:
I've never encountered an instability with Applex X11.app, so I can't
comment on that, but there also exist some advantages (apart from
convenience), depending upon your needs.
In my case the most important advantage is the quartz acceleration of
the (proprietary) window manager.
I uninstalled Apple SDK without problems: it seems useless with Xfree86.
Francesco
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:33:18 -0700, William Scott wrote:
the fact that the user has to know to install separately the ~4MB SDK
package, which doesn't install by default.
And, best of all, the Fink X11 is MUCH more stable.
Tony
On May 31, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Franco Quaranta wrote:
1) XFree86 is more coherent withFink sub-system;
2) It's free from proprietary elements;
3) It let you use pure Darwin enviroment.
Francesco
On Mon, 31 May 2004 20:58:22 + (UTC), Perry
