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Apple released X11 1.1.2 (Update 2006) yesterday. The 50MB update addresses several issues in the X11 X Window system, enabling it to better handle GLX stereo visuals and offscreen rendering to GLX Pbuffers and Pixmaps. To tell X11 to take advantage of stereo visuals, you'll need to fire up the Terminal and enter:Want to drag a file to another folder and copy it instead of moving it? Press the Option key when you drag that file and it'll be duplicated rather than moved entirely.
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Brutal said 11:25AM on 11-02-2006
What the hell are GLX stereo visuals? And do I really need them?
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Adrian said 11:37AM on 11-02-2006
http://www.opengl.org//resources/code/samples/advanced/advanced97/notes/node13.html
Stereo is, when the graphics card renders two separate images for each eye to produce a 3d effect. Though you need some sort of viewing equippment to view those visuals.
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Amir said 11:54AM on 11-02-2006
I updated my X11 app and now Open Office 2.0 (the latest version) won't launch anymore. X11 launches, I see the Open Office splash screen for a few seconds and then nothing. Open Office was working just fine before with the prior version of X11. Any ideas?
Thanks
I have an 1.83 GHz Intel iMac with 1.5 gig of RAM, running 10.4.8
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Concerned Customer said 2:05PM on 11-02-2006
BREAKING NEWS: Parallels has been updated!
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Kai said 12:13PM on 11-02-2006
Stereo is only useful for scientific applications (as we use it daily in our research, but until now only with Linux and SGI boxes and the Quad-core G5).
We purchased PowerMac's for our research, only to find out later that Apple's stereo in a window was broken...we waited for the updates but they never came. Finally we got rid of our huge CRT monitors (req'd for stereo) and moved them to more useful Linux boxes so that we can finally use the stereo. Now we have beautiful dual LCD's hooked up to our G5.
Naturally one month after we give up on Apple, they fix the only thing keeping us from using them 100%. Bleh.
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Macobyte said 12:39PM on 11-02-2006
"X11 1.1 or 1.1.1"
Got enough friggin' ones there?
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Shawn said 2:03PM on 11-02-2006
I also have the OpenOffice issue. NeoOffice works fine, tho.
Also, the Yellow Cursor problem hasn't been fixed yet. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060316124704289&query=x11
I think I'm going to have to revert this update... :-(
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Ian Scott said 4:20PM on 11-03-2006
What's really important about this update is that it fixes the Command-Tab/Dock-clicking issue that Apple's X11 has had for a long time. Since Tiger came out and until this update, switching into X11 by using Command-Tab or clicking on the X icon on the dock didn't raise any of the X11 windows, meaning you'd have to Command-Tab in, out, and in to X11, or click on the icon twice. This finally fixes it, and it's about time!
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Gabriel said 2:28PM on 11-07-2006
There is a fix published at: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/news/news2006.html#20061105
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