X11 on Leopard is broken

Some people are reporting that X11 is broken on MacOS Leopard. Others are reporting that X11 apps like Inkscape, GIMP and OpenOffice will not run. Both of these links provide work arounds until Apple fix these problems.

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Bugs from the X11 list

#reports Radar # regression? fix id'd? title
15 5197292 yes yes I can't drag X11 windows between displays
15 5235232 yes no Launching X11.app from dock results in two X11 dock entries
11 4893425 yes no X11 fullscreen mode doesn't work
10 5266072 yes partial Can't paste into an xterm with emulated buttons
9 5299179 yes yes X11 windows can be dragged under MenuBar
8 5405131 yes yes X11.app: customized commands (with args) in Applications menu don't work
7 4145630 no no Cut and paste in X11 is unreliable
7 4377346 no no GLX: X11 server not reporting pbuffer support
6 3584951 maybe? no X11 does not support international keyboards
5 5513687 yes no X11 window does not come to top on activation
4 5564069 yes yes Yellow cursor on Intel Macs under X11.app 2.0 - X.org X11R7.2.
3 4768279 no no GLX: Missing multisampled visuals in X11 server
3 5289578 yes no X11 menu bar uncoupled from X11 application's windows
3 5296794 no no X11.app: Items in Customize... window messy when resized
3 5564366 n/a no Clicking on X11 window takes me to wrong Space
2 5517966 n/a no Spaces does not take me to correct desktop when I click on X11 icon
2 5564271 n/a no Cannot drag X11 windows to other spaces (via edge of screen)
2 5567479 yes no JIS keyboard mapping is not recognized in X11
2 4732016 n/a no implement tablet pressure support in XDarwin/XInput
2 5289553 yes no X11 menu bar doesn't appear immediately up launching X11 application

As ever the more people who report a bug....

X11

The X11 release hosted here:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz

fixes some of this problems.

X11

Thanks for the heads up

Most recent update of X11

You can find it here:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.4

This update fixes the BIG fonts seen in xemacs and CCP4.

Xcode does not set DISPLAY variable properly

Something that I came up against: If you run an app from inside Xcode, the DISPLAY variable will be set to 'localhost', rather than the correct '/tmp/launch***' path for X11. If your app relies on setting DISPLAY, better to run it from the Finder.

This is a known bug at Apple.

Drew

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Drew McCormack
http://www.maccoremac.com
http://www.macanics.net
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X11 2.2.0.1 Update

FYI there is new update for X11 under leopard:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz

I am downloading it right now.

X11 2.2.1 is out