xfce

James Linder jam at tigger.ws
Wed Jan 6 20:52:03 PST 2016


> On 7 Jan 2016, at 12:44 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 6, 2016, at 9:57 PM, James Linder wrote:
> 
>> I have built xfce on el Capitan
>> I filed 2 tickets about xfce failing to build, 1 a red-herring (for non english speakers that is a distraction with no reason) 1 about SIP that is real (and sorry Ryan for getting the ticket detail wrong), but it works beautifully.
>> Thanks to the maintainers - it was lots of work.
>> All the information to make it run is easily available, just it does not run out-the-box (xfce runs on Quartz so you need that and xinit startup stuff)
> 
> Quartz is a framework inside OS X. If you have OS X, you have Quartz.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_(graphics_layer)
> 
> Perhaps you meant XQuartz? i.e. X running on Quartz?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuartz
> 
> If so, then you should be able to use either the separate XQuartz distribution available at www.xquartz.org or the xorg-server port in MacPorts; they are the same software.

My excuse is that it is 40C in Perth today (now)
My bad of course I mean XQuartz - ooooh I see the mail corrects me! I write XQuartz and it is ‘corrected’ to Quartz
also
>> Thanks to the maintainers - it was lots of work.
sound sarcastic
It should say
Thanks yo the maintainers - they have done lots of work.




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