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X11 on Mac OS X From the Experts

by Blane Warrene

Apple has published an excellent guide to installing, configuring and running X11 on OS X at the Apple Developers Connection. The post includes excellent detail on getting the environment setup to your preference and also on working with remote servers.

There are some trade-offs considering the core Terminal in OS X has very nice integration with the GUI such as drag and drop. However, when you need an environment to run X11 apps - you cannot beat having the core BSD-Unix kernel of Darwin to run X11 on and still having immediate access to OS X.

One nice feature of X11 on the Mac is Finder integration - meaning if you double-click on an X11 app in OS X it will launch in X11.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 23rd, 2005 at 6:02 pm, contains 124 words, and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

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  1. Lucas Chan Says:
    January 23rd, 2005 at 6:35 pm

    If you have X11 running on another box you can always use the Mac VNC client (Chicken of the VNC) to control the X session. This is useful if you don’t wish to run X windows on your mac.

    I tried this over the weekend and it works like a charm.

    Chicken of the VNC here:

    http://www.realvnc.com/resources.html#osxviewer

    And some useful VNC docs here:

    http://www.realvnc.com/v4/x0.html

     
  2. bwarrene Says:
    January 24th, 2005 at 2:40 pm

    Lucas — I just nabbed Chicken of the VNC and it is excellent. I tested it grabbing a remote Windows server and it behaved nicely. I like the mouse pointer tracker. Great tip!

     

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Blane is a writer and researcher focusing on Apple and Open Source technologies. Prior to this, he helped found a commercial software and consulting venture, and worked in the financial services sector as a director of technology and in varying technical roles. Blane maintains Open Sourcery: SitePoint's Open Source Blog.

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