[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.1.0

Ben Byer bbyer at apple.com
Sat Dec 1 19:37:36 PST 2007


On Dec 1, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Ben Byer wrote:

> Only minor nits I noticed:
>
> 1.  What's the difference between xvfb and xfake?   How about xnest  
> and Xephyr?   I'm asking, because I'm trying to figure out what we  
> (Apple) need to pick up for a future update.
>
> 2. Is there any reason we can't go ahead and call this X11R7.3 in  
> the About box?
>
> 3.  We should probably refer to this package as "X11" (as opposed to  
> X11User), because it includes parts of what would traditionally go  
> into the SDK package (the man pages for functions, and the header  
> files).  That's perfectly fine; I see no reason to bother with  
> splitting it into two packages.
>
> 4. It'd be super-spiff to get the Dock icon for Xquartz thing in,  
> but being able to pass arguments to X11.app is probably good enough.


Also, wasn't there a patch to xauth to get rid of the stupid warning  
message?
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Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer



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