Updated quartz-wm for Tiger

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 17:39, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 18:53, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> On Mar 16, 2009, at 16:20, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 14, 2009, at 04:02, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've built an updated quartz-wm for Tiger (don't try using this  
>>>> on Leopard) for use with the new xorg-server in MacPorts.  This  
>>>> quartz-wm will fix the "100% CPU issue when pasteboard proxying  
>>>> is enabled" issue and fixes the dock interaction bug that was  
>>>> present in the 1.0.0 version that I built a few weeks ago.  This  
>>>> also brings Tiger users all the fixes that have gone into quartz- 
>>>> wm on Leopard (gravity hints, fullscreen hints, etc).
>>>>
>>>> http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/quartz-wm-1.0.1-Tiger.bz2
>>>>
>>>> download it, decompress it, and place it at /opt/local/bin/quartz- 
>>>> wm (or change /opt/local/bin to be your prefix).
>>>>
>>>> You will also need to 'sudo port -v upgrade xinit' to get xinitrc  
>>>> to use this quartz-wm instead of the system one.
>>>
>>> You are recommending people download and install something into  
>>> the MacPorts prefix, without using MacPorts?
>>>
>>> Why can this not be installed with a MacPorts port?
>>
>> Well, quartz-wm isn't open source, so I thought I can't make a port  
>> for it.  If that's not the case, I'll gladly make a port for this,  
>> since it'll make things work nicer.
>
> I have a few non-open-source ports in MacPorts already: oracle- 
> instantclient, isightcapture. As long as it's free software I don't  
> see a problem with making ports of non-open-source software  
> especially if it's a dependency of another port we want to have  
> (e.g. oracle-instantclient is there so that there can be a +oracle  
> variant of the php5 port).

Excellent.  Then with that blessing, I shall run off and create a  
quartz-wm port!