Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'XDarwin 1.0.4.1 Released!' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
XDarwin 1.0.4.1 Released!
Authored by: robg on Nov 07, '01 12:25:52PM
Great news - the 1.0.4.1 release of XDarwin fixes the disappearing cursor bug in the GIMP! It also has a number of other fixes, and installs on top of your existing installation. Here's the whole blurb on what's new: The XonX project announces the release of XDarwin 1.0.4 for MacOS versions 10.0 and 10.1. XDarwin provides the ability to run XWindow applications on Mac OS X and is similar in functionality to XTools from Tenon. Further details are available at www.xdarwin.org. This release fixes many bugs and adds a new preferences panel so that mostof the new features added since XFree86 4.1 can be controlled from the GUI. The help file has also been rewritten. In addition, XDarwin is now localized in Japanese, French, German, and Swedish. We believe this version is close to final release quality and we would appreciate your feedback to at the XonX project page. This release was built from top of the XFree86 CVS tree as of November 6, 2001 at 15:30 PST. Please note that this release has a separate tarball for Mac OS X 10.0 and Mac OS X 10.1. For the technically interested, bug fixes include the following:
  • The SHAPE extension now works in rootless mode.
  • XDarwin now starts from the Finder if the user's default shell is bash.
  • /usr/X11R6/bin is no longer required to be in the user's path to start from the Finder.
  • XDarwin is now compatible with the Kensington's MouseWorks.
  • Fixed disappearing cursor in rootless mode often seen with GIMP. In cases where the cursor would have disappeared, the Aqua arrow cursor is now displayed instead.
  • Fixed cursor artifacts when running in full screen Quartz mode in 8 bit color.
  • The Option modified characters are now translated into the X11 keymap and should work. This is mainly useful on non-US keyboards.
  • Some crashes when quitting have been fixed.
  • The log no longer shows a misleading second start with a false error when XDarwin fails to start up.
  • If switched too rapidly, full screen mode could get in a strange state where X11 was displayed, but clicks fell through to Aqua.
  • Fixed a rare rootless crash.


[ Reply to This | # ]
XDarwin 1.0.5.1 released!
Authored by: robg on Dec 06, '01 03:00:05PM
XDarwin 1.05 has been released. Note that there are two separate files, one (1.0.5.0) for pre-10.1 OS X systems, the other (1.0.5.1) for 10.1+ systems. You can download either file from the xonx project's files page on Sourceforge. This is a bug-fix release which addresses the following bugs:
  • Several crashing bugs have been fixed including a crash when passing GLX data with NaN's.
  • The at character ("@") works again.
  • The cursor no longer disappears when switching back to XDarwin running in rootless mode with more than one monitor.
  • XDarwin will launch from the Finder even if there are spaces or other bad characters in the path to its application bundle.
  • All 8 bits of PseudoColor are used in full screen Quartz mode.
  • The Alt/Option key produces Mod1 by default again instead of Mod3.
  • The "Set..." keymapping button works.
  • The full screen switch key combination is ignored in rootless mode.
The installation instructions are quite simple, and can be found in the release notes.

[ Reply to This | # ]