OroborOSXMore than just another window manager!
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WARNING! - I've found there was a major problem with the (default) USA.xmodmap file in the v0.9 final release. I've fixed it now and updated the download archive - but if you downloaded v0.9 final before 15:00 GMT on 6th Jan.
(and you can't fix up your USA.xmodmap yourself - file available here: USA.xmodmap),
you should download v0.9 again...
Version 0.9 final has major improvements over v0.8.5, including faster drawing, hardware OpenGL, window property rules (so
each X11 window can be initialised with exactly the properties you want),
new presentation mode (hides Dock and menus), works with Apple's X11 (including its X11 Plugin library for altivec-accelerated drawing), on-the-fly X11 keyboard switching, and much more!
Here's a more detailed list of new features for this version.
BTW - thanks to some of the guys over at BSD Mall
for providing some much-needed help in getting this working correctly with OSX10.3. If you are using Matlab, or you have issues with threading, or you want to use v0.9 final on top of a version of XFree86 before v4.3 (Apple's older X11 beta releases are based on v4.2), then you should read this page. Please make sure you launch OroborOSX the first time as the same user that you used to download it -this ensures that the necessary internal archives are expanded, ready for use by any user.
Apple's X11 and XDarwin. What does Apple's own release of X11 mean for the XonX project (i.e. XDarwin/XFree86-for-OSX)? -A page of information is under construction. In the meantime, here's a few relevant links:
Problems running OroborOSX? - See the troubleshooting page and
the forums.
Since OroborOSX includes its own modified version of the XDarwin application,
the download size is about 2MBytes. Sorry about that :-( If you find any issues with this release, please send helpful bug reports to the Help forum (with any relevant console log output, if possible - note the new "Verbose Logging" item in the Help menu...) Thanks!
E-mail lists and forums! More themes!
What's Needed
In order to use OroborOSX you will obviously need to have the X Windows system (XFree86
and the XDarwin application) already installed.
The easiest way to do this is to go get the
complete XFree86 4.2 package from XonX.
It is a big download, but it is well worth it - especially since it also
includes the "rootless patch", which is needed for the versions of OroborOSX before the latest
0.8 releases.
I have compiled OroborOSX alongside XFree86 v4.1.0, and I suspect it links to some
dynamic libraries. If so, you will need at least v4.1.0 installed (4.2 is fine) before you can
run OroborOSX (or at least, you will need the relevant dynamic libraries). I hope somebody somewhere finds this useful!
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Contact Info:
I can be contacted as follows: adrian@ic.ac.uk
Web page: http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/~adrian/
Adrian Umpleby