[Xastir] Xastir on Mac OS X 10.5. Leopard

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 22:02:35 EST 2008


On Feb 18, 2008 9:45 PM, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Chip Griffin wrote:
>
> > Part of the reason for the big issues was a complete rewrite from
> > XFree86 to X.org (I think). I'm not sure all the reasons for the
> > switch, but it was a big project and they didn't fully complete it in
> > the window.
>
> For what it's worth, various Linux's (Linuxii?) went through an
> unstable period as well when many distributions switched from
> XFree86 to Xorg.

A lot of the issues are specific to integrating with the Mac's
environment, especially issues with focus and the virtual desktop
solution included in Leopard.

The basic Xorg functionality seems to be pretty solid.



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