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Leopard Issues and Fixes

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 4 months ago

Mac OS X

 

If you find issues with Leopard and have fixes... then please let us know and we will include here.


X11 is broken on Leopard..

 

You can replace with an updated binary or source version from here :

 

http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin

 

or you can replace with the Tiger version ...

 

http://aaroniba.net/articles/x11-leopard.html

 

copied here :

 

(Discovered by Tim Baur and reported on the x11-users mailing list).

 

Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) ships with a very broken version of X11. It's totally unusable for anyone (like me) who spends a significant portion of their day in X11.

 

The good news is you can get the version of X11 from Tiger to run on Leopard. Here's how you do it:

 

Step 1: First you need to remove the new and crappy version of X11. I did this with the following commands in the terminal:

 

sudo mv /usr/X11 /tmp/

sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.x.X11.plist

sudo rm /Library/Receipts/X11User.pkg

sudo pkgutil --forget com.apple.pkg.X11User # UPDATE [2007/10/29]: I forgot to include this in the original steps.

Note: X11User.pkg may not exist in /Library/Receipts. That's OK.

 

Step 2: Install Tiger's X11.app. If you have your Mac's installer CDs, the package you need to double-click the file X11User.pkg found inside System/Installation/Packages/ on the installer CD.

 

Note: There are lots of versions of X11.app for Tiger. The original Tiger CD ships with one that was PPC only, which I accidentally installed when I did this the first time. If you have a recent Installer CD that came with your mac, I would use that. Otherwise, it appears you can download it here, but I haven't tried that.

 

Step 3: The final step is to edit the file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and go to the bottom of the file and replace "exec quartz-wm" with "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm".

 

That's it! Now X11.app doesn't suck as bad anymore.

 

Update [2007/10/29]: Jamie Kennea writes:

 

One thing I would add, is that instead of removing the X11 directory I

did the following:

 

sudo pkgutil --unlink com.apple.pkg.X11User

 

but please check the orignal site for updates :-)


 

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