Updated quartz-wm for Tiger

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Ok, the port 'quartz-wm' is now available (and a runtime dependency of  
the xorg meta-port).   I compiled the latest quartz-wm for both  
Leopard and Tiger against MacPorts.

--Jeremy

On Mar 16, 2009, at 18:51, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>
> 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!
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