Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz

Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by rbanffy on Saturday February 18, 2012 @01:41PM (#3607305)

Can we please calm down? All that happened is that they will no longer bundle an old version of XQuartz with every new release of OSX, which is probably a good thing because it will probably make it less hacky to install a newer version.

How many Mac users actually use X? I assume a fraction of the audience of HN does, but, again, the last time I used X on a Mac it was on a PPC G3.

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by ComputerGuru on Saturday February 18, 2012 @02:03PM (#3607374)

Inkscape only runs via X on Mac.

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by forgottenpaswrd on Saturday February 18, 2012 @02:11PM (#3607402)

Witch is terrible unfortunate.

You can't use copy paste because it copies a raster version instead of a vector one.

This makes inkscape totally unusable. I tried to compile a native GTK version but letters and icons will appear as little boxes. It was more useful that way that the X version(at least this way you could guess what the boxes were).

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by seclorum on Saturday February 18, 2012 @03:41PM (#3607689)

There's an easy fix:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Copying_and_past...

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by damncabbage on Sunday February 19, 2012 @02:53AM (#3608903)

Note:

  However, this will also prevent copying text from any
  X11 application to Mac OS X ones. It will not prevent
  copying text from OS X to X11.

But:

  When you just want to make a copy of an object within
  Inkscape, you should use duplicate (Ctrl-D) rather than
  copy/paste (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V). Duplicate does not interact
  with the X11/OSX clipboards.

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by dchest on Saturday February 18, 2012 @02:29PM (#3607468)

Hm, copy & paste inside Inkscape worked for me well.

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by mturmon on Sunday February 19, 2012 @03:12AM (#3608929)

Matlab requires X.

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