[Xquartz-dev] 2.2.1_rc1 and Xquartz-1.4.0-apple3
Michał Majchrowicz
mmajchrowicz at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 03:44:30 PDT 2008
Hi.
For me 2.2.1 works much better than 2.2.0 but I notice one glitch.
When I run an X app trough it's icon then cmd-tab shows it's window
but when I run it in terminal (i.e. the only way to run OpenOffice) I
still se only X icon in cmd-tab.
Regards Michal.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
> I've rolled together a new package that puts together all the work that has
> gone into XQuartz over the past week or so. We've made a lot of progress on
> the stability front and on the migration to the 1.4 branch.
>
> The 2.2.1 release candidate includes recently released versions of some X11
> apps and libs (including pixman and cairo), fixes the most common crashes in
> Xquartz, and fixes cmd-tab (which now brings all the windows forward).
>
> Release notes for 2.2.1 are here:
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.2.1
>
> The package is available here:
> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/X11-2.2.1_rc1.pkg
>
> There are no known regressions with 2.2.1_rc1 (so please try to find them).
>
> I'd still like to get the server lockup bug fixed for the 2.2.1 release,
> but I'm having trouble triggering it. I need good test cases for this. If
> you can reliably lockup the server, please let me know:
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/ticket/41 - X11 lockup at
> __xp_async_dequeue
>
> Also, can someone please confirm that fonts work fine on ppc with 2.2.1:
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/ticket/92 - font issues on ppc
>
> ---
>
> We've also made some progress in getting onto a newer xserver codebase.
> 1.4.0-apple3 is available for your testing here (just replace
> /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz from the 2.2.1_rc1 package with this one):
> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/Xquartz-1.4.0-apple3.bz2
>
> As mentioned before, 1.4 adds in support for xkb and tablets, so if you use
> or want to use anything other than an english keyboard and mouse, *please*
> test it out and notify us of regressions.
>
> It addresses the two reported issues with 1.4.0-apple2:
> Dragging windows to another space ---> crash
> External monitor ---> bork
>
> There are two known issues:
> 1) Sometimes when X11 is quit, a crash will occur in the new input handling
> code. I would appreciate any assistance in narrowing down this issue (if
> there's something you can do that will always trigger it, for example).
>
> 2) There is sometimes some spew at the beginning about 'Failed to lock
> mieqEnqueue_mutex'... this is because of a race of one thread to use the
> mutex before the other inits it. I'll have that fixed soon.
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