[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_beta3

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Tue Nov 11 14:40:00 PST 2008


On Nov 11, 2008, at 14:21, Mike Krogh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed 2.3.2_beta3 on my Leopard 10.5.5 MacBook and am  
> having several problems with our X11 based application now.
>
> First, I tried to install X11-2.3.1.pkg after trying 2.3.2-beta3 but  
> it crashes every time I try to start the X11 server.  I've rebooted,  
> reinstall a couple of times but no luck.  X11 now just crashes  
> immediately.  How does one downgrade X11?

You should be able to just install the 2.3.1 package.  What's the  
crash log say?

> Second, at least with 2.3.2_beta3 our application's dialogs now  
> frequently, but not always, pop to the upper left corner of the  
> desktop (dual monitors) after twiddling some of the dialog's widgets.

Are you using gravity on these windows?

> Third, the application opens multiple connections to the X server  
> since it uses both Motif and QT4.  With 2.3.2_beta3, some dialogs  
> created via PyQT are now causing the X11 server to crash; the main  
> app is Motif based.

A stack trace of the crash would be helpful.

> Unfortunately, I have not been keeping up with all the 2.3.x updates  
> so I don't know how far back this problem goes.  Prior to this I was  
> running 2.2.2 without these problems.  I'll be happy to try the  
> various 2.2.x and 2.3.x release to see when the problem was  
> introduced if someone can tell me how to properly downgrade.

Just install the package, you should be able to downgrade without  
issue...


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