[Xquartz-dev] 2.4.0-beta2

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Hi everyone,

Since releasing 2.3.3, I've been spending my time working on the 1.5  
server branch.  I've been chipping away at the regressions that had  
been introduced over 1.4, and they are mostly cleared out now.   
Well... at least the ones I'm aware of.

Two changes of note:
1) I believe a possible deadlock with 8bit visuals has been fixed that  
was reported in 2.3.3.2.  Hopefully someone can confirm this for me.

2) I added support to quit X11 when the last window is closed.  This  
was a requested feature a while back, so here it is.  It's documented  
in the man page for quartz-wm, but I don't intend to make a GUI  
checkbox for it.

defaults write org.x.X11 wm_auto_quit -bool true

The full ChangeLog is available here:
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/ChangeLog

And here's the DMG link:
http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/X11-2.4.0_beta2.dmg

The only remaining known regression with this release affects users  
who have a ~/.Xmodmap file.  There is a race condition to setup the  
keyboard mappings when this file is present.  The results are  
unpredictable, and I recommend moving this file aside for the time  
being and running xmodmap manually once X11 has started up.

Thanks,
Jeremy