Try the xorg-server-1.18 MacPort instead of the default xorg-server port. There was a speed regression from 1.18 to 1.20. It's still not nearly as fast as XQuartz was before Yosemite, though.
At times, I wonder how hard it would be to change MacPorts' "vnc" port to start compiling the VNC/X11 server. (Right now it only compiles the client.) If that could be made to work, you could use a native MacOS VNC client to connect to it. You'd have something that would run X11 apps on the Mac which would be lighter weight than a VM and much faster than XQuartz. You'd think that the work involved would be much smaller than the "XtoQ in libxcwm" fix to XQuartz. I've never gotten around to trying it though. On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 08:34:32AM +0000, Gunning, James (Energy, Clayton North) via X11-users wrote: > Hi All, > I'm running Xquartz from the Macports build on High Sierra. > Lots of things don't really work well > 1) I have to run /opt/local/bin/Xquartz manually from a terminal, then start > quartz-wm from the > xterm it fires up. The Applications/Macports/X11.app just bounced endlessly. > 2) Even when up, the drawing/rendering speed makes all X11 apps unusably slow. > See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues/188 > Since X11 is my workhorse, this makes the whole OSX+X11 platform experience > rather > unworkable for me. I've taken to running linux via a VM on OSX - at least the > X11 works well, but it's a heavyweight solution. > It seems to me that without a fix this disqualifies OSX as a platform for > people who depend on the huge legacy set of X11 codes. > > Are other people as plagued by these issues as well. Is there any hope of > remediation for Xquartz > or substitute/workaround people know of? > > Best wishes > James. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ken%40preslan.org > > This email sent to [email protected] -- Ken Preslan <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ 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]
