Xquartz starts automatically when it's needed. Its windows appear alongside the native Mac windows, without the need for a separate window manager.
-- Steve On 8/31/18, 2:04 PM, "Cheng-Yang Tan" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have a few questions: If I run the xorg-server from macports, then 1. Do I still have to start Xquartz? 2. Does xorg-server have a window manager? 3. Are there any instructions on how to run xorg-server? (I don't know where .xinitrc is on my Mac but are there any .x* files that need to be changed?) Thanks! cytan On Friday, August 31, 2018, 12:10:41 PM CDT, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) <[email protected]> wrote: You meant "xorg-server", not "xors-server". Chris -- Can I hijack this thread to ask if you have any insight into a question which the macports and vtk lists haven't been able to answer: Is it possible to use OpenGL 3.2 on macOS, using mesa and X from MacPorts? mesa 17.1.6 ought to support OpenGL 4.5, but glxinfo (from macports) says it's only 2.1, and vtk requires at least 3.2. Thanks. -- Steve On 8/31/18, 12:53 PM, "X11-users on behalf of Christopher Jones" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, On 31 Aug 2018, at 5:14 pm, David <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Jeremyhu is listed as the maintainer of xorg-server on MacPorts. does he spend more time working on that than XQuartz? I cannot comment on Jeremy’s intentions w.r.t. XQuartz, but he has (a couple times I think) mentioned on these mailing lists he was considering stopping XQuartz releases and focussing exclusively on the MacPorts versions as the primary distribution means. I can comment on MacPorts, as I am a member. 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X11 is certainly not dead in MacPorts, and I do recommend anyone using the server to look to migrating to use the MacPorts supplied version (port name is xors-server). Chris David On Aug 30, 2018, at 2:51 PM, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: 4. Re: Is XQuartz development abandoned? (Filhol Alain) Message: 4 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:51:01 +0200 From: Filhol Alain <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Is XQuartz development abandoned? Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Here the answer I got from Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia on 02 Feb 2017. I think we can be real pessimistic concerning X11 on macOS. [AF] A question about slow dialogues with OpenMotif and XQuartz (much slower than with Linux). [JHS] <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> There is a known issue there, I believe with Yosemite and newer versions of macOS (maybe Mavericks+, maybe ElCap+, I forget exactly). The issue is below us in CoreGraphics and won't really be fixed on Apple's side as doing so would fix this case but cause bad performance penalties for every single other case out there. The real solution is to get XQuartz off of libXplugin and start using more modern macOS APIs (eg: finishing up libxcwm), but there's not really anyone actively working on that right now. [AF] Are you the only one involved in XQuartz developments ? [JHS] Yes, and I spend significantly less than 1% of my time on it ... barely enough to just pull in upstream changes, build, and ship. [AF] [...] but people are reluctant in using them on Macintoshes because of that problem of slowness. [JHS] If you're interested in working on the replacement, I can point you in the right direction. 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