September 2008 - Xquartz-dev - lists.macosforge.org

Tablet support in gimp/Inkscape (Macports)
by Jeremy Huddleston 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

If you want to have tablet support in gimp, apply this patch to the Portfile for gtk2 in Macports, and pull gimp or inkscape from Macports. If you don't know what this means, just bug whoever you get your binary version of gimp/inkscape from and tell them to compile gtk with '--with-xinput' configure option. --Jeremy /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/x11/ gtk2 $ diff -Naurp Portfile.orig Portfile --- Portfile.orig 2008-09-04 01:47:13.000000000 -0700 +++ Portfile 2008-09-04 01:50:17.000000000 -0700 @@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ variant x11 conflicts quartz description } } + if {${os.platform} == "darwin" && [lindex [split ${os.version} .] 0] eq 9} { + configure.args-append --with-xinput + } + depends_lib-append port:xrender \ lib:libX11.6:xorg

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[2.3.1RC3] screen captures
by Brian Bender 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I'm seeing something odd that I'm pretty sure is new to 2.3 or so -- if I try to do a window-specific screen-cap of a wireshark window ("cmd-shift-4", "space", click), I don't get a proper picture of the window. The main window shows some corrupted fonts in one frame, the others are blank; if I try to get a snap of the Statistics/Summary window, it's blank except for the title bar. If I do an area capture instead (don't hit space and just drag around the window), I get a true picture of what the window looked like. My wireshark is built from MacPorts from a while back, against an older X11.app install (I can probably figure out which from receipt timestamps, if it's important). Could it be that I need to rebuild my X-related MacPorts stuff against the newer libs? Thanks, - Brian

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Tablet support in X11.app
by Jeremy Huddleston 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

So there has been quite a bit of back and forth about Tablet support in X11 on OSX over the past few months on these lists. I've spent some time today cleaning it up some more and added support for differentiating between the pen and eraser, but I haven't tested it out due to lack of hardware here in the UK. It will be included in 2.3.1_rc4 when I get around to pushing that out. I tested Gimp.app for OSX, and it does not have tablet support. This is a Gimp.app bug. They need to compile gdk with XInputExtension support. I tested out a version of gimp compiled on a linux machine (using the Xquartz server), and it showed the devices when I clicked the 'Configure Extended Input Devices' button in Gimp's preferences (whereas the Gimp.app version does says it's not supported). If you care about having support for your tablet in Gimp.app, then you should report this bug to the Gimp.app maintainers and reference the fact that it works with the Xquartz server and gimp on linux. --Jeremy

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2.3.1_rc3
by Jeremy Huddleston 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi all, I'd like to announce another (hopefully the last) rc for 2.3.1. Changes in rc3 over rc1 include: fixed the SwitchCoreKeyboard crash fixes key-equivalents for the input menu (command-space) pulls in Mesa-7.1 for libGLU, libglut, and libGLw uses Mesa-7.0.4 to build the server Please test it out. http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/X11-2.3.1_rc3.pkg Thanks, Jeremy

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Environment passed to Applications-launched processes
by Brian Bender 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi Jeremy, I wouldn't say it's worth holding up the release process, but I noticed something about the latest prereleases and environment variables -- X11.app doesn't seem to be inheriting the same environment as other Aqua apps (or it's at least not passing it to processes it starts from the Applications menu). I have a couple of shell scripts as entries in X11's Application menu, and they don't work any more (they launch programs that are in /usr/local/bin). I dumped the environment to a file from one script, and it's very bare, PATH only includes "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin". From my /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d, it should also have "/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$HOME/bin:/Developer/Tools:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin". I'm not sure how far back, but it did pass the full Aqua environment fairly recently. -- Brian

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