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Several nagging problems in recent Xquartz versions…
by SciFi 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi, I'm having a few nagging problems with Xquartz, many versions of late, including 2.6.3_rc2 (current as I type/send this note). 1. Whenever I hot-plug a 2nd monitor into the mini-DVI port, all Xquartz windows instantly want to get shoved-over to that monitor. I must move my mouse-pointer over to that monitor and drag-back all those windows to main screen (the one marked by the desktop bar in Display Prefs). I do not use, nor have anything configured for, Spaces and/or Exposé etc., and I've tried various Xquartz Prefs to no avail. Display Prefs is configured as an additional separate 2nd-screen, no 'mirroring' involved. 2. I did file a report on my semi-stuck 'h' key, but I am presently unable to find it to update more tests. In short, I have tried _several_ keyboards, of various kinds, even an Apple Wireless (old style), and one expressly designed for M$-Windows "multimedia" apps made by Micro-Innovations, model KB565BL. I've even tried to adjust the Keyboard Prefs to slow-down repeated keys etc. to no avail. Nevertheless, I *will* eventually get a stuck-'h' key that self-repeats until I hit it a few more times. Remember that it is only the apps running under Xquartz (including even xterm) that is doing this, none of the regular OSX apps have this problem. So this does not indicate a hardware problem to me -- it indicates we have a very weird software interplay causing it, and I'm totally unsure where to ask for more help other than this list and/or bug-reports. To wit, this *does* drive me crazy at times, because 'h' is a letter that is very-often used, esp'ly for displaying Headers under Pan (a very famous gtk+/glib newsreader app). 3. The massive update included in the 2.6.1 version of Xquartz, and continuing now with 2.6.3_rc2, has caused marked visual problems with various text. I've written up a report, and attached a PNG to show a few of the problems, here: <https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2011-05/msg00019.html> I was hoping to get some indication on what-all I should update in the glib/gtk+ train of requisites. No one has helped there, so I now bring this problem to this list where the X11 gizmos were bothered-with in the first place. ;) FWIW I do not see this problem in the xterm window, it seems to be only in the glib/gtk+ apps. And yes 2.6.0-and-before I believe do not cause this problem. (More is explained in the linked-to report.) 4. I did open a newish bug-report to cover a simple fix when GNU 'mktemp' ends-up being used rather than the BSD 'mktemp'. This is bug #490 in the Xquartz tracker. 5. Please do not ask me to use a pkg-mgr like Fink or Macports etc. If any src-tarball won't work right "out of the box", then we need to study & fix things in the usual *ix manners, rather than covering-it-up. ;) 6. Personally, I am medically disabled / retired with 38+years work on record. My professional life was mainly in a big IBM mainframe shop doing systems-level work (not the app-level programming). I do open-src projects now as a hobby to keep my brain sharp. ;) All this is on a model iMac6,1 C2D machine with 4GB RAM (maxed-out), running 10.6.8 and all official updates so far. I have no kind of ~/.x* contraptions at all, so nothing should be bothering the Xquartz defaults etc. I try to keep watch on tons of projects via Gmane, a main reason I use Pan (where we're testing several new enhancements to it), and will attempt to follow any help with these problems. Thank you for reading.

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Quitting XQuartz 2.7.0 (xorg-server 1.11.2) stalls Mac OS X 10.6.8
by Peter Dyballa 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Hello! Quitting XQuartz 2.7.0 (xorg-server 1.11.2), installed via its update service, on Mac OS X 10.6.8 repeatedly stalls the system. Only the cursor can be moved, the digital clock in the menu bar has stopped. The good side is that it could not damage the file system (yet). CPU hardware: Sandy Bridge. -- Greetings Pete "Debugging? Klingons do not debug! Our software does not coddle the weak."

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Selecting an X client from a pile
by Peter Dyballa 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Hello Jeremy! Some first impressions from XQuartz 2.7.0 (xorg-server 1.10.99.901) on Snow Leopard. When I have one GNU Emacs window partially hiding another GNU Emacs window and I want to pick the top-most one with the mouse at the title bar, than this event is sent to the X client below, for example selecting there a line of text. The picking succeeds when I pick that part of the title bar which is outside of the buried X client. These malfunctions are quite often. The GNU Emacsen I use are of version 24.0.50 and compiled as a first try: In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2011-07-14 on peter-dyballas-macbook-pro.fritz.box Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11099901 configured using `configure '--without-sound' '--without-dbus' '--without-pop' '--without-gconf' '--without-gsettings' '--without-gpm' '--without-xpm' '--without-jpeg' '--without-tiff' '--without-gif' '--without-png' '--without-rsvg' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar24:/Library/Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-g -H -pipe -fPIC -fno-common -Os' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -Wl,-bind_at_load -Wl,-t' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig'' I also have GNU Emacs 23.3 as installed with MacPorts – with Motif. To have a zoo. Others are using GTK+2 or GTK+3. I think I'll have an eye on this and be making some tests on purpose. -- Greetings Pete Progress (n.): Process through which USENET evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.

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XQuartz 2.7.0
by Jeremy Huddleston 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Today, I'd like to announce the release of XQuartz 2.7.0. Thanks to everyone who tested out the earlier betas and release candidate. If you have a previous version of XQuartz installed, you should be able to check for updates within XQuartz. The full list of changes as well as a link to the dmg can be found on the release notes page: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.7.0 The primary improvements in XQuartz are with GLX (mesa), font rendering, and fixes for various security vulnerabilities. Please report any issues you find. Due to the massive amount of changes that went into GLX, there are bound to be a few regressions to have fallen through the cracks, but there are none known at this time. A special thanks to everyone who suffered through testing GLX during the beta. I really appreciate your feedback and testing. --Jeremy

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