Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr)
Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr)
- Subject: Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr)
- From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:48:42 -0800
I'm pleased to announce that I've posted source and binaries on http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin
for Xquartz 1.2a8. Since 1.2a7,
the following issues have been addressed:
* Small fix to menu bar height calculation. Credit: Nicholas Riley
* Big fix to rootless code, which should eliminate some Xquartz
crashes -- big thanks to Ken Thomases of CodeWeavers
* "Fake RandR" support -- Tiger's X11.app didn't actually support the
RandR extension (which allows display configuration to be changed
while the server is running), but it did copy some code that does part
of that. I'd like to actually implement support for RandR, but in the
mean time I've copied the "fake" code into Xquartz. I haven't yet
managed to scrounge up the hardware to test this, so I would
appreciate hearing reports about whether this does or does not work.
* Fixed spurious "Are you sure you want to quit?" message. This
message is supposed to be suppressed if you do not have any X client
apps running, but it could show up if you had started the server
manually and not started any client (uninitialized variable). BTW,
this warning can be disabled entirely with the command "defaults write
org.x.X11 no_quit_alert true"
* Xvfb, Xnest and Xephyr may now be built out of this source tree, but
you have to build them separately from Xquartz. See the wiki page for
more info.
Unfortunately, the rootless code fix will only address (some) server
crashes, and probably won't fix client-side crashes like Gimp.app. Le
sigh.
Older fixes from 1.2a7:
* JIS (Japanese) keyboards are now correctly detected by X11.
* Xvfb and Xnest now compile cleanly; I have not tested them, but
binaries are available at http://people.freedesktop.org/~bbyer/x11app/
* The "offset-pointer"/"ghost window" bug with Spaces has been
resolved correctly (this is my second attempt). This means you can
now use the F8 function to zoom out and drag a window from one Space
to another with your mouse. Unfortunately, due to a known issue in
Spaces itself, you can not drag X11 windows to the edge of the screen
to move them to the next screen.
* A focus problem was fixed -- previously, clicking on an X11 window
that was behind an Aqua window would not always bring the X11 window
to the foreground (but clicking on any other X11 window usually would.)
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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