Mac OS X 10.5: X11 Documentation/Release Notes
Mac OS X 10.5: X11 Documentation/Release Notes
- Subject: Mac OS X 10.5: X11 Documentation/Release Notes
- From: Merton Campbell Crockett <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:18:47 -0800
I'm a wee slow in discovering the X11-users mailing list. Had I
discovered a couple of years earlier when configuring X11 for Mac OS X
10.4, I might not be having as many problems with X11 for Mac OS X 10.5.
My primary question is where are Apple's X11 Documentation and Release
Notes for Mac OS X 10.5?
I realize that the "'Chinese Orange'- and Gray- Walls" of
documentation published by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) are a
thing of the past. It would be nice if Apple could publish, at least,
documentation like the Release Notes, Administration Guide, and Users
Guide published by Berkeley Software Design (BSDi) and to a lesser
extent SuSE (SuSE/Novell).
While not extensive as DEC's documentation, BSDi's documentation gave
one the basic, essential documentation about the software included in
the distribution. More importantly, it gave the user an idea of the
vendor's implementation approach and philosophy. In a way, this was
far more important than the specific application usage details as it
allowed one to customize and enhance the system in a manner that would
not require a complete rework with each release of the operating system.
Under Mac OS X 10.4, I had X11.app in the Dock and configured to start-
up when I logged into the system. After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5,
this continues to work after a fashion but results in an xterm being
started with the default geometry and environment in addition to the
custom xterm that I had defined. In addition, there are, now,
additional X11 icons appearing in the Dock with several of them being
non-functional.
I specified that X window applications should be started in Spaces'
window 2. This doesn't work. You need to use F8 to display the
Spaces windows and drag the X window application to window 2.
The drop shadows on the X windows applications appear to be those of
Mac OS X 10.4 rather than Mac OS X 10.5, e.g. the shadows are darker
and narrower giving the appearance that the window is closer to any
underlying windows. Was there a problem with the upgrade
installation? I have a "/usr/X11R6 1" directory structure in addition
to the "/usr/X11R6" symbolic link.
The X "focus follows mouse" policy doesn't seem to work any longer.
Actually, it appears to work erratically. Some times the focus moves
but the visual indicators (red, yellow, and green balls) don't change
to the window with focus. It would be really nice if Apple would
allow you to set a global "focus follows mouse" policy that would
apply to all window managers.
Merton Campbell Crockett
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