Running X11 in MacOS-window-as-X11-display mode?

[Ken Preslan]

Thanks for the reply.

I was talking about the MacPorts version (port install xorg-server).  I switched from the XQuartz.org <http://xquartz.org/> version long before that.

My main problem was performance.  In the Mojave time-frame the xorg server was updated from 1.18 to 1.20.  Performance for xterm scrolling tanked.  It was unusable.  I complained on macports-users on April 1st 2019.  There was a thread about it and Christopher Jones created a xorg-server-1.18 port, which made things better for me.

When I upgrade to Catalina, the xorg-server-1.18 port stopped working.  I also had big problems getting Full Disk Access working for the X11 apps I was running.  So, I switched to VNC to Linux.

In my opinion, X11 support has been going downhill for a long time.  Since at least Yosemite.  You MacPorts guys are doing a great job, but I wish Apple would pitch in more.  It sounds like Jeremy H. knows exactly what to do, but Apple won’t commit to the work.

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Ken Preslan <ken at preslan.org>



> On Dec 8, 2020, at 10:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryan-2020 at ryandesign.com> wrote:
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>> From: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org <mailto:ryandesign at macports.org>>
>> Subject: Re: Running X11 in MacOS-window-as-X11-display mode?
>> Date: December 8, 2020 at 22:18:56 CST
>> To: Ken Preslan <ken at preslan.org <mailto:ken at preslan.org>>
>> Cc: Justin Vallon <justinvallon at gmail.com <mailto:justinvallon at gmail.com>>, MacPorts Users <macports-users at lists.macports.org <mailto:macports-users at lists.macports.org>>
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>> On Dec 8, 2020, at 02:42, Ken Preslan wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 03:41:57PM -0500, Justin Vallon wrote:
>>>> I currently use a VNC server on a debian machine, and a VNC client on my
>>>> Mac.  I am trying to configure my Mac to run the Xserver/VNC server so that
>>>> I don't need to remote-connect to my Linux host.
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>>> Before Catalina, I was a big XQuartz user.
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>> Do you mean you were actually using the installer from xquartz.org <http://xquartz.org/>? If so, you should switch to the corresponding ports provided by MacPorts. The xorg-server port contains X11.app, for example. The installer from xquartz.org <http://xquartz.org/> hasn't been updated in four years, while our ports are updated all the time.
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>>> Performance and compatibility 
>>> got so bad in Catalina that I switched to exactly what you're doing now.
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>> I haven't heard of performance or compatibility problems with X11 on macOS Catalina. If you're seeing this with the software from xquartz.org <http://xquartz.org/>, switch to the MacPorts ports. If you're seeing this problem with the MacPorts ports, file bug reports.
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