[Xquartz-dev] seems 2.7.2b4 helps a lot! (Re: Several nagging problems in recent Xquartz versions…)

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Apr 4, 2012, at 8:30 AM, SciFi <sci-fi at hush.ai> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The new cairo-1.12.0 inside 2.7.2-beta4 seems to fix all the visual
> anomalies with Pan I reported last year.  :)

Great!  I knew it fixed some compositing issues, but that's great to hear.  I like it when other people fix bugs, and all I need to do is version bump =)

> As for the other items in my report:
> 
> 1.  I've kept the work-around for the 2nd monitor, by moving the
>    Display Prefs indicator for the Mits to the "other" side.

Yeah, this one is a tough nut to crack.  I'm not sure it's worth the effort, and hopefully it will "just work" with the changes coming in 3.0.

> 2.  We still have the stuck-'h' key.  In fact the bug-report #443
>    has a few more people who are experiencing this same problem.
>    As for me, a recent Pan build from git.gnome.org can easily
>    change its "hotkey" table, to let us steer-clear of using 'h'
>    for any of its functions.

There's really nothing "special" about h other than that it's used higher up in the stack for cmd-h to hide windows.  I'm really perplexed by this issue, and unless you can help me reproduce it, there's really no hope of me fixing it.

> 5.  I still cannot use the pkg-mgrs: the latest Pan code seems to
>    need some projects/versions that are not (yet) available except
>    for having to build 'em by hand the old-fashioned way.  Sorry.  ;)

What versions are missing in MacPorts.  I can probably update them for you...