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From: bm@zippy.cs.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.machten,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ...Running X clients on a UNIX box via a Macintosh - HELP!...
Date: 21 Nov 1995 14:23:46 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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Message-ID: <BM.95Nov21092346@zippy.cs.columbia.edu>
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Reply-To: Blair MacIntyre <bm@cs.columbia.edu>
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In-reply-to: tmc@wentworth.com's message of Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:59:48 -0400
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>>>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:59:48 -0400, tmc@wentworth.com (Tim
>>>>> McLain) said:
Tim> In short, I need to know what software I need to run on my Mac to
Tim> access the UNIX box and execute X clients located there, and have
Tim> them display on my Mac.
You have two basic choices:
- MachTen and Tenon's X
- an X that sits directly on top of the Mac window system, such as
MacX.
The advantage to Tenon's version is that you can run local clients,
since it's a functional Unix environment. More importantly, it's much
faster that any other X (I've used MacX, Age's new PPC native version
of MacX). Finally, it's more "compatible": MacX doesn't give you a
nice clean Meta key, for example, so using Emacs is a pain.
The only downside of using X on a Mac is that (since it's not memory
protected) it crashes occasionally. I have a lot of init's and have
had a recurring crash (about once a day) that I've reported to Tenon.
It hasn't come back in a few days since I removed some inits
(Powertalk, QuickDraw3D, Now QuickContact and Reminder, at least).
The only downside of MachTen X is that it's fullscreen (doesn't
integrate well with other Mac programs). Of course, that is why it is
so much faster, and why it can give you the better compatibility.
--
Blair MacIntyre (bm@cs.columbia.edu), Graduate Student (Graphics and UI Lab)
smail: Dept. of Computer Science, 450 Computer Science Building, 500 W 120 St.
Columbia University, New York, NY 10027