Updated quartz-wm for Tiger

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Mon Mar 16 16:53:41 PDT 2009


On Mar 16, 2009, at 16:20, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Mar 14, 2009, at 04:02, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> I've built an updated quartz-wm for Tiger (don't try using this on  
>> Leopard) for use with the new xorg-server in MacPorts.  This quartz- 
>> wm will fix the "100% CPU issue when pasteboard proxying is  
>> enabled" issue and fixes the dock interaction bug that was present  
>> in the 1.0.0 version that I built a few weeks ago.  This also  
>> brings Tiger users all the fixes that have gone into quartz-wm on  
>> Leopard (gravity hints, fullscreen hints, etc).
>>
>> http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/quartz-wm-1.0.1-Tiger.bz2
>>
>> download it, decompress it, and place it at /opt/local/bin/quartz- 
>> wm (or change /opt/local/bin to be your prefix).
>>
>> You will also need to 'sudo port -v upgrade xinit' to get xinitrc  
>> to use this quartz-wm instead of the system one.
>
> You are recommending people download and install something into the  
> MacPorts prefix, without using MacPorts?
>
> Why can this not be installed with a MacPorts port?

Well, quartz-wm isn't open source, so I thought I can't make a port  
for it.  If that's not the case, I'll gladly make a port for this,  
since it'll make things work nicer.




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