New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support
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Re: New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support
#2Awesome. Something about this post really hits home about the amazing people working quietly behind the scenes chipping away to keep everything running.
And then Tom Lane is the first person to weigh in to give thanks?! How do these people manage the breadth of contribution that they do?
Re: New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support
#3> Older builds required either a lot of hand-holding or Apple
Internal tools, so this will hopefully be a step towards making it easier for
others to drive future releases of XQuartz. If that is something you'd be
interested in, please let me know.
Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz. Nonetheless it’s great that they put in the work of bringing native Apple Silicon support and making a build system for it that others can use.
Anyways I personally much more rarely need XQuartz now than before, but it’s good to have it be available still if and when you need it.
Re: New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support
#4> Older builds required either a lot of hand-holding or Apple Internal tools, so this will hopefully be a step towards making it easier for others to drive future releases of XQuartz. If that is something you'd be interested in, please let me know. Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz. Nonetheless it’s great that they put in the work of bringing native Apple Silic…
> Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz.
Either that, or they realised that it would be literally impossible to build it on Apple Silicon, if the hand holding became not possible and the internal tools not available.
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#5Wow. The previous release was in 2016, so I was sure that XQuartz was dead for good. Nice to be pleasantly surprised!
I occasionally use XQuartz to run graphical programs over SSH using X forwarding, although I’ve mostly moved on to other approaches due to a combination of:
1. Bad support for HiDPI displays (theoretically fixable in XQuartz - curious if they will tackle it now).
2. Annoyingly high input and redisplay latency (probably not fixable, just an inherent property of the very chatty X protocol).
Still nice to have the option.
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#6Is it related to Quartz composer?
Re: New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support
#7Is it related to Quartz composer?
It's an X11 implementation that runs on Mac OS, so it does indeed run X11 over the top of the Quartz graphics system that Mac OS uses.
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#8Is it related to Quartz composer?
Kind of - they're both from the same era when Quartz was the branding for any graphics things.
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#9It's always worked on M1 when compiled from MacPorts... I don't understand what has changed.
Re: New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support
#10Wow. The previous release was in 2016, so I was sure that XQuartz was dead for good. Nice to be pleasantly surprised! I occasionally use XQuartz to run graphical programs over SSH using X forwarding, although I’ve mostly moved on to other approaches due to a combination of: 1. Bad support for HiDPI displays (theoretically fixable in XQuartz - curious if they will tackle it now). 2. Annoyingly high input and redisplay…
hm, I'm using X11 forwarding when I'm on my mac box to control my music player and there is pretty much no latency (and text isn't a blurry mess like rdp / vnc but crisp and sharp). I'm on a gigabit network though.