Apple Releases Beta 3 of X11 58
maxentius writes "Apple says the just released beta of X11 adds: pseudocolor (8-bit) visual plane support; option to quit X11 without presenting warning dialog; Command-Q keyboard shortcut to quit X11; Command-, to bring up preferences dialog; keyboard mappings with dead keys fixed; linking against libGL no longer results with multiple definitions of glGetColorTableEXT; locked files left behind in /tmp no longer block non-admin users from starting X11; windows can be resized by user to any size and not be limited by the Dock's height; dragging remotely hosted windows no longer causes crash; hardware accelerated scrolling in 16 bit mode now works; X server no longer crashes if application tried to retrieve data back from the framebuffer using XGetImage; bug fixes and other feature enhancements."
Re:Quit without warning: how? (Score:4, Informative)
Added an option to quit X11 without presenting warning dialog : "defaults write com.apple.x11 no_quit_alert true". See man page for Xquartz for more details.
Re:Quit without warning: how? (Score:5, Informative)
From the FAQ:
And from the man XQuartz page:Re:What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have (Score:5, Informative)
But, you'll definately want to grab LyX. Then, wonder off and get TeXShop and start churning out some TeX to amaze your friends with your superfine equation-writing sk1llz.
Hardware Accelerated XDarwin coming (Score:2, Informative)
The last XDarwin would run KDE 3.0.7 just fine, but the Apple beta would freeze the whole machine when I ran it... that's the primary reason I want X11 (and for Gimp...)
I'm dowloading the new Apple beta now...
dochood
ghostview, rasmol, texmac ,gimp, xemacs, tex2im (Score:3, Informative)
rasmol is the workhorse molecular graphics program
texmac is TeX with a really nice realtime wysiwyg, pallete and menu driven setup.
gimp is the Gnu answer to photoshop. about as powerful though a little less freindly and fast.
tex2im turns TeX equations into graphics. I use this with Keynote as an equation creator. (there are some other solutions too). well its not an X app but the other programs that do this are.
Fink Support (Score:2, Informative)
Having run into this last night, please be aware that Fink's system-xfree86 package doesn't support Apple X11 0.3 yet. I'm sure that support will come soon, but it was awfully disconcerting pulling a powerbook out of its box, grabbing X11, the SDK, and Fink, and watching it mysteriously fail.
Re:What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have (Score:2, Informative)
TeXShop runs just fine without X11
Re:What are the "killer" X11 apps I should have (Score:2, Informative)
-- shayborg