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2016-01-11 , 11:42
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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
Apple haven't provided X11 support in OSX for some time now. The last X11.app was OSX 10.7.

It's now a separate open source project as XQuartz of which Apple do contribute to but it's pretty clear they don't think it's that important. There's no support for retina displays for instance.

The chances of them ever supporting iOS would be approaching zero.

IME it's never been that great on OSX even when they did support it fully. It was more of a hangover from NeXT.
I certainly didn't seriously think Apple would ever bring X11 support to iOS. I was just pointing out how ironic it is that X11-compatibility "just works" in Mac OS X, while X11 works poorly at best (after additional software is loaded, and scripts are written) under Wayland or Mir, despite official claims that these display managers would provide X11 compatibility.

I was unaware Mac OS X did not support X11 on retina displays. I'd better take care of my ageing Macbook!
 

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