Hi, I've just moved from a mid-2010 15" macbookpro with macosx-10.6.8 and X11.app to a mid-2015 15" macbookpro(retina) with macosx-10.11.5 and XQuartz-2.7.9. I use full-screen mode and twm as my window manager.
Sorry for the long email with too many questions. Feel free to just ignore any that can't be answered. :-) 1) The first odd thing that I've noticed is that the resolution in XQuartz is much less than I'd expected. With the old macbookpro, the resolution was 1680x1050 in normal use and in X11 and in XQuartz. With the new macbookpro, the resolution is normally 2880x1800 but in XQuartz it's only 1440x900. Any idea why that might be? Can it be made to use the full resolution (or at least 1680x1050)? Or is that just wthe way it is with retina displays? I use ~/.xinitrc instead of ~/.xinitrc.d/*.sh and I thought that might be causing a problem but when I moved ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc.disabled and restarted XQuartz and entered full-screen mode, all I got was a solid black screen with nothing at all happening. That might be a clue to some wierdness. A search through the mailing list shows up a utility called SwitchResX that is supposed to fix this but the download site www.madrau.com doesn't seem to be functioning at the moment. Is this what everybody with XQuartz and retina displays has to use? Note: I don't want to change my resolution outside of XQuartz, I just want the resolution in XQuartz to match the normal resolution. 2) Another thing I'd like to ask, is: Is there any way to make XQuartz start in full-screen mode? One of the reasons I used X11.app instead of XQuartz on the old macbookpro was that when X11 was configured to use full-screen mode, it would start in full-screen mode automatically and I typed Command-Option-A to get out of it or back in. When XQuartz is configured to use full-screen mode, it starts invisibly and I have to type Command-Option-A to enter full-screen mode. 3) Also, when XQuartz starts (after entering full-screen mode), the keyboard focus doesn't start to follow the mouse until after I have clicked once in a window. After that, it behaves properly. Is there any way to fix that behaviour so that keyboard focus follows the mouse immediately on start? This was the other reason that I kept using the old X11.app. 4) This applies to the old X11.app and XQuartz: I execute xset in my ~/.xinitrc to change the keyboard rate among other things but it doesn't work there and I have to execute it manually from an xterm for it to work. Any idea why that might be happening? 5) Last question: I use a lesstif/motif version of vim all the time (Lesstif is from macports). So I want to test XQuartz 2.7.10_rc5. Presumably, /opt/X11/lib/flat_namespace will be installed when I install the new XQuartz. If it doesn't work out and I want to reinstall XQuartz 2.7.9, will that cause any problems? cheers, raf _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
