[XonX-Announce] XFree86 4.4.0 - Apple's X11 1.0

[Torrey L. <to...@mr...>]

One of the main goals for XFree86 4.4.0 was to reach feature parity 
with Apple's X11. Thus, XFree86 4.4.0 and Apple's X11 1.0 are very 
similar in many ways. Depending on your particular needs, you may 
find one has a compelling feature that the other does not offer. 
XFree86 4.4.0 provides identical performance to Apple's X11 on 
Panther and is fully compatible with quartz-wm. In addition this 
release fixes several bugs present in Apple's X11.

  BUG FIXES:

  1. Threaded direct GLX works correctly.

  2. The X11 GL library does not export all the GLU symbols.

  3. All scripts and man pages do not begin with "#pragma" line. This 
bug causes various problems including scripts not working for users 
with tcsh as their shell and manpage formatting being broken.

  4. The Freetype library is fully backwards compatible with earlier 
versions. (This was a bug in XFree86 4.3.0, which Apple's X11 
inherited.)

  FEATURE DIFFERENCES:

  1. XFree86 supports IPv6.

  2. There is no "pseudo-fullscreen" mode. XFree86's fullscreen mode 
has a real root window which works with xmag and twm, but you can't 
dynamically switch between fullscreen and rootless modes.

  3. XFree86 does not track Aqua keyboard layout changes while it is 
running. XFree86 reads the Aqua keyboard layout at startup time. 
While running, the X11 keymap should be changed with xmodmap.

  4. XFree86 is supported back to Mac OS X 10.1.

  5. XFree86 only interprets Command key shortcuts if the cursor is in 
the menubar.

  6. XFree86 does not support changing the screen layout or color 
depth while it is running.

  7. XFree86 has no "Applications" menu for launching frequently used 
X11 clients.

  8. Hiding the XFree86 application works when using any window 
manager. (Apple's X11 only supports hiding with quartz-wm.)

  9. XFree86 supports cut-and-paste between Aqua and X11 windows when 
quartz-wm is not running. If quartz-wm is running, XFree86 will let 
quartz-wm handle cut-and-paste as it generally does a better job.

  10. XFree86 allows arbitrary modifier keys to be used in emulating a 
multi-button mouse. These can be specified from the Preferences UI.

  11. XFree86 does not set X_LOCALE on Panther.

--Torrey