February 2012 - Xquartz-dev - lists.macosforge.org

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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Confirmation
by William Smith 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

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XQuartz-2.7.1
by Jeremy Huddleston 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that XQuartz-2.7.1 is now available to download. You can install this version by either checking for updates within XQuartz or by downloading it directly from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.1.dmg Thanks to everyone who helped test or otherwise contributed to this release. The key changes in this release are: * Fixed a possible bug choosing the wrong DISPLAY in FUS environments (#523) * Fixed a crash in quartz-wm (#538) * Updated freetype to address CVE-2011-3439 * Command-H should behave better when in fullscreen mode (#478) * Mouse buttons should not stick if they were held when switching applications (or used for Exposé) (#486) * Improved support for Apple's next version of OS X, Mountain Lion A full list of changes are available at http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.7.1 Thanks, Jeremy

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Mountain Lion
by Jeremy Huddleston 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

As many of you have probably notices, a developer preview of OS X 10.8 was released last week. If you are using this developer preview, please note that XQuartz 2.7.0 does not support Mountain Lion and will have some issues with it. Please use the latest development version of XQuartz (currently 2.7.1_rc4) while testing out the preview release of Mountain Lion. Also as a reminder, please keep discussion of Mountain Lion off this list. If you have issues using XQuartz on Mountain Lion, please file a radar or email me directly. Thanks, Jeremy

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Regression in 2.7.1_rc4: maximize/demaximize window is busted
by Tom Lane 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Click the green maximize button of an X window. It grows to cover whole screen, good. Click it a second time; that should restore the window to its previous size, but actually nothing happens. rc1 did not have this bug AFAIR; can't say about rc2 because I didn't run it very long. regards, tom lane

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a bug with Wine
by doh123 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

I have a minor issue, that affects me a lot in Wineskin, but its reproducible in XQuartz… I was wondering if maybe I can get a pointer of where to look in the code.. of what might be causing it. I'll try to explain the situation. Running Oblivion through Wine, if XQuartz is already running, the game seems to launch fine every time. If XQuartz is not running, then usually when launching Oblivion through Wine, which in turns starts XQuartz, the mouse pointers are not in sync. The OSX pointer is in a different spot on the screen then the X pointer, though they still both move, and it makes it impossible to get the pointer everywhere on the game screen. In Virtual Desktop mode, you can just switch to another app and back and it re-syncs and works, fullscreen you can't really fix it easy since you can't switch back into fullscreen mode if you CMD+Opt+A out in normal XQuartz… This is the only game I've personally seen it in so far, but I'm sure its not the only one. In WineskinX11 I see the same bug pretty much all the time. It only starts in newer builds of Wine, after a lot of the Xinput2 switch over… even with the latest xorg-server git, and even back in the 1.10 versions. With the XQuartz tests I'm using 2.7.1rc4 Where exactly in XQuartz source can I look for where the two pointers are supposed to match up in the same spot on the screen, so I can put some extra check in there, or figure out whats going on… since it only happens sometimes and not all the time, and only when XQuartz has to start up at the same time, I'm assuming it might be some type of race condition? Any input would be helpful...

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XQuartz 2.7.1_rc4 (Dunce Cap Edition)
by Jeremy Huddleston 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

The only change in rc4 is a change in how quartz-wm is built, so it should not crash on start for some users. For background on anyone interested, quartz-wm's build process is a bit fragile. I'm working to make it a bit more robust, but that effort isn't quite done yet. Sorry. I'll go hide now. --Jeremy

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XQuartz 2.7.1_rc3
by Jeremy Huddleston 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

I've uploaded XQuartz 2.7.1_rc3 for testing. This should be fairly close to the final 2.7.1. The primary changes since rc2 are: Fixed bug #478: Fixes hiding (cmd-H) in fullscreen Fixed bug #486: Fixes stuck mouse buttons when switching applications Fixed bug #538: The quartz-wm crash reported just after rc2 was released pixman-0.24.4: Fixes some trapezoid rendering bugs I've also updated versions of a few apps and libpng. http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.1_rc3.dmg

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XQuartz-2.7.1_rc2
by Jeremy Huddleston 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

I just uploaded XQuartz-2.7.1_rc2 to the servers for download. There have been a few minor changes since the previous rc, but most importantly have been bugfixes to quartz-wm and some changes made to how quartz-wm activates windows. I'm hoping that this change might work around the "X11 looses focus" bug that I've never been able to reproduce. If you are able to reproduce this issue (http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/58) please try out this release and let me know if the issue is still present. Thanks, Jeremy http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.1_rc2.dmg

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