The 17th most popular system tool on Mac OS X
X11 for Mac OS X is an implementation of the X Window System that makes it possible to run X11-based applications in Mac OS X. Based on the X.org Foundation releases - the leading reference implementation of X11 - X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X. It features includes full X11R7 compatibility including an X window server, Quartz window manager, libraries, and basic utilities such as xterm. It is an optional install on Mac OS X.… More Edit
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Did you create this app?| Website: | apple.com/macosx/featu... |
| Developer: | Apple Inc. |
| License: | Bundled |
| Version: | 2.3.3.2 |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 6 months, 2 days, 19 hours, 24 minutes and 48 seconds |
| Usage since: | 11 May 2007 |
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This program keeps quitting unexpectedly on my Mac while trying to use Wine...
I use it a lot for forwarding X sessions.
Mac OS 10.5's version of X11 was initially a train wreck (I think this was due to the transition from XFree to XOrg). I returned to X11 with Mac OS version 10.5.6 to find it much improved and usable again.
Used for GIMP!!!!!
Used for IE6 emulation!
The double edged sword of the mac. Incredibly useful if one's goal is to port *nix programs to the mac, yet incredibly aggravating if one unsuspectingly opens an app and sees the bouncing X appear.
X11 on a Mac empowers the user to choose from a wide assortment of opensource programs that would otherwise be unavailable to them without additional hardware. I find it to be a very stable environment ... and very lean in terms of overhead -- as it should be. Like any *nix system it is extensible though I have run into compilation issues where Apple versions failed dependency requirements. OS X includes GLX, an OpenGL extension that supports using OpenGL within a window provided by the X Window system.
The OSX variant of X11 does not include OpenGL. This is incredibly annoying.