Re: X11 errors with Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04.3
Re: X11 errors with Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04.3
- Subject: Re: X11 errors with Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04.3
- From: William Michels via X11-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 08:10:28 -0700
Thank you, Jeremy. The Github repo is a huge help--a lot of people
will be able to contribute that way.
I suppose many people assume that XQuartz is an Apple-sponsored
project (myself included), but from what you're saying--it isn't.
The truth is, ever since ICS LGPL'ed Motif 2.3.4, I'm rather jealous
of Red Had, Fedora, and Ubuntu, who have those binaries available:
https://motif.ics.com/motif
https://motif.ics.com
Total newbie question here: rather than fixing extant bugs in "X.Org
XQuartz", is trying to build a "Motif XQuartz" a realistic option? And
what about Motif licensing issues?
Apple released the quartz-wm window manager under Apple Public Source
License Version 2. Presumably Motif's window manager (mwm) and other
executables available from a Motif 2.3.4 build (uil, xmbind) would
have to remain LGPL. Does LGPL "play well" with X.Org's many licenses
(available below)?
https://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/xorg-docs/License.html
Best Regards,
Bill.
W. Michels, Ph.D.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:02 PM Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> The problem is that there aren't really any "XQuartz people" to do this since
> I now have 2 kids and nobody's really volunteered to work on this in my
> absence. I started working on a new build system to build a newer package
> but haven't gotten much farther than setting up a git repo with all the
> submodules and starting to work on a build script:
>
> https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz
>
> If anyone wants to help with that, it'd surely go a long way to actually
> getting a newer release out. =)
>
> --Jeremy
>
> > On Aug 23, 2019, at 05:14, William Michels <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Chris (and Jeremy),
> >
> > Thank you for your post. So there's a bug in xquartz that's been
> > around since 2017 that's affecting the High Performance Computing
> > Center at the University of Edinburgh?
> >
> > https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/blog/2017/05/24/x-windows-and-xquartz-archer
> >
> > I checked bugzilla and see 1. that the bug is marked as "resolved",
> > and 2. that there's a patch available:
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96260
> >
> > It would be great if the XQuartz people could release a binary (DMG)
> > that includes the patch. I can see a lot of people still being
> > affected by this, and not knowing about a resolution via the MacPorts
> > version.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bill.
> >
> > W. Michels, Ph.D.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Message: 2
> >> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 03:42:09 +0100
> >> From: Chris Jones <email@hidden>
> >> To: email@hidden
> >> Subject: Re: X11 errors with Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04.3
> >> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Known issue, many discussions on the web, e.g.
> >>
> >> https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/blog/2017/05/24/x-windows-and-xquartz-archer
> >>
> >> Also, Note xquartz from
> >>
> >> https://www.xquartz.org/
> >>
> >> Is effectively no longer maintained and out of date. Instead the
> >> recommendation is now to install it via MacPorts
> >>
> >> https://www.macports.org/
> >>
> >> sudo port install xorg-server
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>
>
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