[X-Unix] !@#$@!#$%$% X11 (in Leopard of course)!

[Russell McGaha]

Folks;
	For you that don't know; the shipping version of X11 in Leopard was  
CRIPPLED [only by lack of development time not intention].  join the  
x11-users list or the new xquartz-dev list for more details.

Russell

On Dec 17, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> Glad to hear you got it fixed!
>
> Eric
>
> On Dec 17, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Mac Daddy wrote:
>
>> THAT WAS IT! The old Tiger X11 was still on disk, and even started  
>> bouncing in the dock when I did an 'ssh -Y <machine>', so I  
>> thought I had X11 .  But it doesn't actually *work*.
>>
>> Borrowed a friend's DVD and installed new X11 and now everything's  
>> fine.
>>
>> - md
>>
>>
>> On Dec 17, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Mac Daddy wrote:
>>
>>> No. I have X11 installed.
>>>
>>> Could the problem be that it's the old X11 app from Tiger? And  
>>> that doesn't work on Leopard? It seemed to be exhibiting the same  
>>> Dock behavior as my other install so I thought it was the new  
>>> one ...
>>>
>>> My Leopard DVD isn't with me so I'll have to wait to try a re- 
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> Maybe I can find another ...
>>>
>>> - md
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Eric F Crist wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe it's a dumb question, but did you reinstall X11?  It's not  
>>>> included by default, IIRC.
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Mac Daddy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been liking Leopard at the gui level very much! But the  
>>>>> changes they made affecting my command line use are real  
>>>>> P.I.A.s!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> At home I did an upgrade install of 10.5 over 10.4 and X11(and  
>>>>> everything else) works perfectly! I do an 'ssh -Y <hostname>'  
>>>>> into any one of my linux machines and launch an X app and it  
>>>>> just comes up. Very nice (though the new autolaunching of X11  
>>>>> is ... strange ... when you used it the other way before).
>>>>>
>>>>> On my laptop I did an Archive and Install to see if a "clean"  
>>>>> installation was any different or better. It's different  
>>>>> allright, but not better! Grrr.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here if I do an 'ssh -Y <hostname>' and run an X app from one  
>>>>> of my linux boxes, nothing ever comes up!
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody else had this and overcome it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -md
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S.
>>>>>
>>>>> Along the same lines, nice that I can use flat files to enable  
>>>>> NFS shares so I don't need to use NFS Manager (which is not an  
>>>>> option since it's not compatible with 10.5), but GEEEZZ! The  
>>>>> whole /etc/exports format  just HAS to be entirely different!!!  
>>>>> Took so #$%$#^^& long to get something so simple up .... Is it  
>>>>> a BSD-ism or do they just want to annoy?
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