XQuartz

An X11 server and client libraries for macOS (by XQuartz)

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  • Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2025
    Barely. It was originally a XFree86 project called XDarwin, adopted by Apple as a beta release for Jagwire in 2002, was an optional install in Panther and Tiger, default install in Leopard~Lion, and then was abandoned again in favor of the XOrg-maintained XQuartz after 2011:

    https://xonx.sourceforge.net/ “XFree86, a free implementation of the X Window System, has been ported to Darwin and Mac OS X. […] Our work has been included in Apple's X11 for Mac OS X. ”

    https://www.xquartz.org/

  • Carla Simulator 1 : How to Set Up CARLA Simulator – Toretto Style 🏎️🔥
    1 project | dev.to | 20 Dec 2024
    You can’t drive the machine if you can’t see the road. For that, we need XQuartz to get the display working on your Mac. Download it from url and install it.
  • Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2024
    I couldn't get dillo to compile easily on macos, it doesn't seem to detect ssl libraries installed on the system)

    you can do this to compile it on macos (tested on M1):

    install https://www.xquartz.org/ to have X11

    brew install fltk libjpeg #you might also need openssl@3 but unsure

    git clone https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus/; cd dillo-plus

    # update the 1.3.8_1 fltk version

  • C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
    brew install --cask xquartz

    Or install from the project homepage [1]. Then just launch the X11 app. Note that it does require the application to be built for Mac - it’s not an emulator, just an implementation of the X11 APIs.

    [1] https://www.xquartz.org/

  • Understanding Keyboard Events Better
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
    I’ve recently spent some time working with terminal emulators in raw mode on macOS. While I chose to handle key events using escape codes, and found it seriously difficult (even gave up) to process the shift modifier key. However, I came across xquartz [1], which seems to do similar things as mentioned in the article. Would detecting shift key state have been trivial using such a library?

    [1] https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz

  • Audacity 3.4 – New Musical Features
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023
    The contents are rendered through gtk/cairo which not only goes through https://www.xquartz.org/ but also doesn't use GPU rendering (it was experimental 3 years ago, maybe better now). The main issue seems to be that neither Inkscape nor gtk people have much low level Darwin experts or time available to invest in debugging the whole rendering stack. See for example https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1614 and all the other referenced issues for all the gory details.
  • ksh88 string substitution in alias | mpv streaming
    1 project | /r/openbsd | 2 Nov 2023
    I live in a mezzanine studio using a M1 macbook for a workstation (writing/editing) and my old laptop with openbsd as a local server. I play music from that obsd server upstairs, which thus fills the whole room down to my desktop through the plugged-in speakers. My hosted library plays fine with mpd and ncmpcpp, and I just figured out it's not so difficult to use mpv to play streamed youtube videos, since firefox in XQuartz streaming from xenocara is way too slow anyhow.
  • Back to Emacs - I have some questions
    1 project | /r/emacs | 9 Jul 2023
    There is an alternative: I ended up using Xquartz to give me an X11 environment and then running StumpWM as my tiling window manager. I used this for all my productive stuff, running full screen in MacOS, then a quick keypress got me back to the Mac environment.
  • Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in the next RHEL
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2023
  • Which mac should I get for study?
    1 project | /r/mac | 22 Mar 2023
    I also used Xquartz. Emacs was better for me though because capturing text output and documenting what I captured was so much easier than X-window.
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