[Xquartz-dev] 1.4.0-apple14

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Ok, I figured out the initial lag.  xinit was blocking expecting the  
server to send it SIGUSR1 when it was ready for connections... but the  
stub wasn't handling that.  It'll be fixed in the next version.

--Jeremy

On Jun 4, 2008, at 18:45, Merle Reinhart wrote:

> Interestingly, once I get past the initial startup slowness, the
> xserver seems to overall be a bit faster.  New windows are created
> nearly instantly and repaints seem to be faster, particularly with
> remote apps displayed back over the internet.
>
> I'm not sure where to even begin looking to help you with the startup
> sluggishness.  FYI, I'm on a 4-core 3GHz Mac Pro.
>
> Merle
>
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> I just uploaded new version of the server (1.4.0-apple14).  It uses
>> mach IPC to start the server rather than exec().  This will help us  
>> be
>> more OSX-paradigm friendly in that there should now never be two
>> instances of the process running at the same time.  Please test it  
>> out
>> (and keep your 1.4.0-apple13 binary (from 2.3.0-rc3) handy).  I've
>> noticed that it seems a bit "sluggish" to startup, and I'm not  
>> exactly
>> sure why that is, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> This should do the trick of installing the update:
>>
>> wget http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/X11-1.4.0-apple14.bz2
>> wget http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/Xquartz-1.4.0- 
>> apple14.bz2
>> bunzip2 X11-1.4.0-apple14.bz2
>> bunzip2 Xquartz-1.4.0-apple14.bz2
>> sudo mv /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz.bak
>> sudo mv /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 /
>> Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bak
>> sudo cp Xquartz-1.4.0-apple14 /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz
>> sudo cp X11-1.4.0-apple14 /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/
>> MacOS/X11
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeremy
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