How to make X11 work better on Leopard
On the X.org XDarwin page, Ben Byer of the XDarwin team is providing a fixed-up version of Leopard’s X11 for download. I’ve installed it and I’m pleased so far.
It’s a mixed bag so far, but then, that’s why it’s alpha. Let’s go through the items from my X11 on Leopard is broken post and see how far they’ve come in the week since the Leopard launch. I’ll list the fixed ones first, then the unfixed ones:
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Option-click [and ⌘-click] is broken
Fixed. Both work as expected: option-click middle-clicks and ⌘-click right-clicks.
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Windows don’t stop at the menu bar
Fixed.
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Applications menu doesn’t work with arguments
Fixed.
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xterm ignores .Xdefaults when invoked through the Applications menu
(I never got around to adding this one to the previous post; sorry.) Fixed.
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Wireshark is broken (from the comments on the previous post)
Fixed, according to Bert JW Regeer’s comment.
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.xinitrc is ignored (sort of)
Not fixed.
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xterm ignores .Xdefaults when invoked by login
Not fixed.
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Two X11s
Not fixed. I’m not sure that this is fixable; it’s just an unfortunate side effect of the factorization of X11 into an xterm-launcher and a server.
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It still looks like Tiger
Not fixed.
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X11 doesn’t activate like it’s supposed to (reported by Alan Boyd)
Not fixed.