Anyone running X11 apps on Mojave?

Randolph M. Fritz rmfritz3 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 20:22:03 UTC 2018


Thanks. That is both helpful and discouraging.
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Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com


On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 3:58 AM Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

>
> On Nov 23, 2018, at 10:13 PM, Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> No, they don't. It's been open-sourced. Up to High Sierra, at least, it
> works. There hasn't been a formal release since two years ago October, so
> I'm wondering about Mojave.
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>
>
>
> Apple have not supported (i.e. shipped with the OS) X11 or Xquartz for
> some time now.
>
> Note that the version of Xquartz from www.xquartz.com is in fact just a
> packaging of the MacPorts version ! In fact, the maintainer of the Xquartz
> releases has stated that they may well no longer make releases there, and
> only maintain the MacPorts provided version (via the xorg-server port)
> going forward.
>
> I have exclusively used the MacPorts port for a number of years now, and
> it works flawlessly, on all OSes including 10.14. I recommend switching to
> it, if you currently are running the Xquartz installer version.
>
> Chris
>
> Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 9:59 PM Fred Weinhaus <fmw at alink.net> wrote:
>
>> I use Xquartz on my Mac OSX Sierra just fine. But I got it from
>> https://www.xquartz.org. I do not think Apple supports X11 any longer,
>> only Quartz.
>>
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>> On Nov 23, 2018, at 9:52 PM, Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Does Xquartz still work? or MacPorts X11? Or…?
>> --
>> Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
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