Apple

On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Ben Byer wrote:

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.