Now there are several choices including Tenon's Xtools, XFree86 for darwin, and recently announced Apple's X11 for MacOS X. As of 2002/01/21, XFree86 officially provides an X server that supports rootless mode. All of Apple's X11 for MacOS X, XFree86, and Xtools thus support rootless mode, in which X11 applications and MacOS X applications can coexist in Aqua. I am now using Apple's X11 for MacOS X in the rootless mode and so far it's working OK. All of Apple's X11 for MacOS X, Tenon's Xtools, and the latest (ver.4.2.0.1) XFree86 for Darwin support dynamic (shared) libraries.
Apple's X11 for MacOS X or Tenon's Xtools
You can get a public beta version of Apple's X11 for MacOS X and its corresponding developer's kit from
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/or a trial version (1.0 in my case) of Tenon's Xtools from
http://www.tenon.comboth of which can be downloaded via IE. Once you get the installer package(s), clicking on the installer icon does everything for you.
XFree86
If you have already installed Apple's X11 or Tenon's Xtools and want to keep it, do
# cd /etc
# mv X11 X11.keep
# cd /usr
# mv X11R6 X11R6.keep
You can download precompiled binary packages from
http://www.xfree86.org/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx/
or you can compile it for yourself. The XFree86 binary package is now available with a GUI installer. Its installation is just as easy as Apple's X11 or Tenon's Xtools: clicking on the installer icon does everything for you.
Setup
In addition, if you want to install RPM packages that depend on X11's dynamic shared libraries, you need to install a dummy X11 package as:
# rpm -ivh <somewhere>/X11-1.0-3c.ppc.rpm
in order to resolve unsatisfied dependencies.
You may also need to install the Xaw3d library as:
# rpm -ivh <somewhere>/Xaw3d-1.5-4b.ppc.rpm
if you want to install packages such as gv, etc.
Customization of X11
Optionally, you can add more fonts as you need: in my case, I added small fonts for my PowerBook's LCD.
# cd <somewhere>/fonts
# ls
6x12rk.pcf.gz
fonts.alias.75dpi.added s5x8.pcf.gz
a12.pcf.gz
fonts.alias.misc.added
elisau10.pcf.gz
k12.pcf.gz
# cp *.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
# mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
# cat fonts.alias.75dpi.added >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.alias
# cat fonts.alias.misc.added >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
To switch from Apple's X11 or Tenon's Xtools to XF86, or vice versa Swap
/etc/X11That's it. Be careful for key and mouse button assignments. Be also careful that /private/etc/X11 is a real directory unlike in Xtools where it is a symbolik link.
/usr/X11R6
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