Re: How to revert to native X11 builtins from latest X11 release?
Re: How to revert to native X11 builtins from latest X11 release?
- Subject: Re: How to revert to native X11 builtins from latest X11 release?
- From: Richard Miles <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:14:55 -0700
Here is what I have reported on the fink users list:
could not find any info to revert built-in X11?
Should I ash on the X11 users mailing list?
On Jul 18, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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> There's something posted at http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki
> about that--I believe on the download page. You'd also need to revert
> your /sw/bin/xinitrc.sh to have
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> x_prefix="/usr/X11R6"
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> On 7/18/10 3:06 PM, Richard Miles wrote:
>> I have rebuilt metacity with no change.
>> When you say reverting to the built-in X11, How do I do that?
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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>>> Right. So what I'm saying is that the problem is local to _your_
>>> system. Try rebuilding metacity, maybe.
>>>
>>> Or see if reverting to the built-in X11 works.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Richard Miles <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On My system, when I do that metacity shows in aprenthesis and a zombie process.
>>>> It does not work.
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 17, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You don't need to: it would have worked with /sw as well. I just
>>>>> happen to have put my 32-bit Fink in /sw32 and my 64-bit Fink in /sw64
>>>>> on 10.6.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Richard Miles <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> I do not have /sw32 folder. What do I need to do to have it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Following up: metacity seems to work OK here (it shows up as a
>>>>>>> running process at least) on 10.6/i386, using the following startup
>>>>>>> script:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>>>>> . /sw32/bin/init.sh
>>>>>>> metacity &
>>>>>>> exec gnome-session
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and _not_ using Xquartz.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Richard Miles <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Alexander, I made all the changes you suggested and still no metacity. When I put “metacity &” in the script, it shows as a parenthesis background program and a zombie. The point is an hour glass. No window decorations.
>>>>>>>> I have two window managers that will run: quartz-wm and icewm —gnome. quartz-wm propagates the background to all my spaces. icewm —gnome does not.
>>>>>>>> I have no Ideas on how to get metacity to run.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Richard E. Miles
>>>>>>>> email@hidden
>>>>>>>
On Jul 18, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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> On Jul 18, 2010, at 16:17, Richard Miles wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with metacity not working in gnome. I posted this on the fink users list.
>> Alexandr Hanson suggested reverting back to native X11 built-ins. How do I do That?
>
> What is the problem? Can you please explain the bug? If you're using Snow Leopard, just use X11.app rather than XQuartz.app if you want the older Apple-provided X11.
>
> However, if you don't report what the problem is, at some point in the future, the Apple-provided X11 will inherit this regression.
>
>
Richard E. Miles
email@hidden
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