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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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XQuartz 2.7.1_rc1
by Jeremy Huddleston 18 Dec '11

18 Dec '11

I just uploaded XQuartz 2.7.1_rc1. 2.7.1 is going to be a small maintenance release, so there's not too much to mention in the way of changes. We've pulled in xorg-server-1.11.3 and libXi-1.4.4 which fix a variety of minor bugs, and freetype-2.4.8 which fixes CVE-2011-3439. You can check for updates within XQuartz or grab the dmg here: http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.1_rc1.dmg Thanks, Jeremy

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OSS release of quartz-wm
by Jeremy Huddleston 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Hi all, I am pleased to announce the OSS release of quartz-wm under the terms of the Apple Public Source License v2 (APSL-2). I've created a wiki page in the XQuartz with links and additional information about how to get and build the sources which are curently hosted on github. The git repository contains about 1 year worth of history which should be helpful in bisecting any regressions that may have been introduced with recent refactoring. http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/quartz-wm https://github.com/jeremyhu/quartz-wm The release is currently only available in git, and I will make a tarball releases of the most recent tags soon. These tarballs will be linked from the trac page. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Jeremy

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