Re: [9fans] once more: drawterm osx-x11 on x86-64

[Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com>]

Is this pure X11.app or XQuartz?

On 2/27/15 5:10 PM, Jeff Sickel wrote:
> Some people prefer the X11 version as the refresh speed may be higher.  That’s
> fine, though I prefer having rio resize working so I can full screen the app
> on a second display with CONF=osx-cocoa.
>
> I reduced the flicker in the drawterm-cocoa osx-cocoa version a while back.
> The flicker and window edges not meeting during a move is still there and
> more prevalent on slow connections or a slow cpu.
>
> There are a slew of X11 related changes to support rio resize that I’ve
> been meaning to push out at some point.  Since migrating to OSX 10.10
> the X11.app is mostly broken, and no longer supported/released by Apple,
> so my motivation to finish the changes has dwindled significantly.  In fact,
> the latest X11 update doesn’t extract and install cleanly on OS X 10.10, so
> updates might take a while.
>
> -jas
>
>
>
>> On Feb 26, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A while ago, I reported on a problem I had with flicker and broken window edges
>> in drawterm-cocoa CONF=osx-x11. See the email copied below. It led to a brief
>> exchange.
>>
>> With my present configuration, that problem remains:
>> OSX 10.9.5
>> drawterm-cocoa 2014-12-02
>>
>> However, I just tried rsc's drawterm 2013-07-02,
>> and there the problem is absent.
>>
>> I take it there are not many users of drawterm on OSX,
>> either jas' or rsc's distribution, who
>> use the x11 version -- are there? I'd be interested
>> to compare notes.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Mark.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gma...>
>> Subject: drawterm osx-x11 on x86_64
>> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:40:14 +0100
>>
>> For the record---to compile drawterm
>> (http://code.google.com/p/drawterm/) with CONF=osx-x11 on x86_64 (in
>> my case running 10.8.5), just add the required substitution to the
>> makefile:
>>
>> Make.osx-x11
>>
>> 20 - arch=`uname -m|sed 's/i.86/386/;s/Power Macintosh/power/'`; \
>> 20 + arch=`uname -m|sed 's/i.86/386/;s/Power
>> Macintosh/power/;s/x86_64/amd64/'`; \
>>
>> For the moment, I prefer this to drawterm-cocoa because there is no
>> flicker, and window borders remain intact when reshaping with B1 or
>> B2.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
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