Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
- Subject: Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
- From: Simone Karin Lehmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:24:42 +0100
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Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
On 22.11.2011, at 09:51, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 22/11/11 03:23, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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>>> So maybe there is no conflict in the case of an X client in the form of simple binary executable. But if there is a wrapper script that communicates with X11 using things like "defaults read org.x.X11" or "tell application \"X11\" to activate", I can imagine a conflict or two.
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>> Yes, if they do something wrong, I imagine they will get inconsistent results. No application should be doing that though. Some used to, but those have all been fixed for a few years now.
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> Well, I had a look at the latest Gimp-for-Mac sources, where they produce the ingredients for the *.app structure. It looks like a Platypus wrapper, and there is a string "tell application \"X11\" to activate" somewhere in there.
that's only used with an already running X server to bring all X windows to front. It's never used to launch /A/U/X11.app.
GIMP is linked against libraries in /usr/lib, so it needs Apple's X11 to be installed.
-skl
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