Re: [Inkscape-devel] XQuartz status

The long term solution would be to use the Quartz backend of GTK instead of the X11 backend on the Mac. However, the prerequisite is porting Inkscape to GTK3 and ironing out all the bugs that will cause.

Regards, Krzysztof 2015-08-28 11:56 GMT+02:00 Lucian Holland <lucian@...3245...>: > Hi, > > Like many other people using Inkscape on a Mac, I’ve had lots of > problems > with multi-monitor support through different versions of XQuartz > and OS X. > It’s still basically unusable if you have the “Displays have > separate > spaces” option enabled. I’ve commented on some of the XQuartz bugs, > and > raised issues with Apple in the hope that someday something might > get fixed. > The other day I received an update on one of the XQuartz bugs > (included > below). Is anyone else worried that a fundamental piece of the > architecture > for making Inkscape work on a Mac is pretty much unsupported now? > I’m > guessing that if there’s no one working on it things are just going > to get > worse as new versions of OS X roll out? > > Lucian > > -- > Lucian Holland > Sent with Sparrow > > Forwarded message: > > From: XQuartz <trac@...3267...> > Reply To: noreply@...3267... > Date: Tuesday, 4 August 2015 04:21:57 > Subject: Re: [XQuartz] #796: Mavericks spaces + XQuartz windows > disappearing > between monitors > > #796: Mavericks spaces + XQuartz windows disappearing between > monitors > ------------------------+------------------------------------ > Reporter: sishome@… | Owner: jeremyhu@… > Type: usability | Status: closed > Priority: Blocker | Milestone: > Component: xserver | Version: 2.7.4 (xserver-1.13.0) > Resolution: Invalid | Keywords: > ------------------------+------------------------------------ > > Comment (by jeremyhu@…): > > It's an issue in the interaction between OS X and XQuartz. It could > likely be solved in XQuartz (specifically in quartz-wm) if someone > was > interested in working on that. If someone fixes it, I'll gladly > pull a > fix into an XQuartz update, but as it is, there isn't really anyone > working on the product these days. > > -- > Ticket URL: < > http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/796#comment:42> > XQuartz <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel