Re: problems installing xquartz
Re: problems installing xquartz
- Subject: Re: problems installing xquartz
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:11:24 -0500
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Jim Graham
<email@hidden> wrote:
But at least some of those are add-ons, not a part of stock X11. Is X11
itself to blame if someone writes some incompatible code for an add-on?
Ok, fine, X11 is to blame for nothing, it's ALL the fault of applications.
What you're missing is that that is, itself, the problem. And it's X11's fault because it is an explicit X11 policy to refuse to define a consistent user interface; in other words, official X11 policy is that every program has a license to behave unlike any other program. This does not produce usable systems, except in certain limited microcosms.
And you cannot safely use the existence of such microcosms as proof that nobody has to worry about the fact that random programs don't behave similarly. Fine, your setup happens to work that way; it doesn't generalize to anyone else's system and can't be used as evidence that there isn't really a problem. In the real world, all too often you need to mix programs using different (or no) toolkits, and the result is desktop chaos. If you've never seen this, you're really lucky; don't insult folks for whom it's a daily occurrence.
(I also have no idea what you mean about Primary "vanished"; if middle-click paste works, PRIMARY is there. How did you determine that it "vanished"?)
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