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: Robert Tillyard via X11-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 21:03:46 +0100
Are there any instructions on how to download XQuartz from source and build it?
If we could get that far it might be possible to contribute back although I
suspect that only a few people know enough about how to integrate the X.org
changes.
Regards, Rob.
> On 24 Aug 2019, at 16:10, William Michels via X11-users
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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