OroborOSX

More than just another window manager!
A complete environment for X11 on Mac OS X



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Binary packages and source code packages are available for different versions of OroborOSX.

The most recent version is 0.9 (5th Jan. 2004).

Note that old development/test versions are also available.

Please be sure to read the brief online instructions and the README file that comes as part of each package.

If you have any problems using OroborOSX, please consult the troubleshooting page. It may also be useful to read through the Introduction to X11 on OS X, and possibly the XDarwin/MacGIMP forums to see if your problem has been covered there.

OroborOSX is released under the Gnu Public License (GPL) -please see the LICENSE file for more information about this.


Latest versions (0.9 and 0.8.5):

See the version history for detailed information about the features in these versions.

Date Version Binary Package Source Code
5th
January
2004
0.9 OroborOSX-v0.9.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.9-src.tar.gz
24th
December
2002
0.8.5 OroborOSX-v0.8.5.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.8.5-src.tar.gz


Development downloads for version 0.75/0.8:

Date Version Binary Package Source Code
9th
August
2002
0.8beta2 OroborOSX-v0.8b2.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.8b2-src.tar.gz
14th
June
2002
0.8beta OroborOSX-v0.8b.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.8b-src.tar.gz
29th
May
2002
0.8preview3 OroborOSX-v0.8preview3.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.8pr3-src.tar.gz
3rd
Apr.
2002
0.8preview2 OroborOSX-v0.8preview2.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.8pr2-src.tar.gz
27th
Mar.
2002
0.8preview OroborOSX-v0.8preview.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.8pr-src.tar.gz
24th
Dec.
2001
(rel.1:
20th)
0.75a4 rel.2
(0.75a4 -rel.1)
OroborOSX-v0.75a4r2.tar.gz
(rel.1: OroborOSX-v0.75alpha4.tar.gz)
OroborOSX-v0.75a4r2-src.tar.gz
(rel.1: OroborOSX-v0.75a4-src.tar.gz)
6th
Nov.
2001
0.75a3 OroborOSX-v0.75alpha3.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.75a3-src.tar.gz
27th
Oct.
2001
0.75a2 OroborOSX-v0.75alpha2.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.75a2-src.tar.gz
12th
Oct.
2001
0.75a1 OroborOSX-v0.75alpha1.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.75a1-src.tar.gz


Here are the older versions. These tend to have strange menu access problems with OS X 10.1, as well as having no way to configure the Launch menu. Also, there is no multi-screen support. (See the version history for more detailed info about changes.)

Date Version Binary Package Source Code
28th
Sept.
2001
0.71 OroborOSX-v0.71.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.71-src.tar.gz
24th
Sept.
2001
0.7 OroborOSX-v0.7.tar.gz (sorry -didn't keep the source for this...
but there was little change up to v0.71)
24th
Aug.
2001
0.1 OroborOSX-v0.1.tar.gz OroborOSX-v0.1-src.tar.gz


Contact Info:

I can be contacted as follows: adrian@ic.ac.uk

Web page: http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/~adrian/

Adrian Umpleby