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Can we please calm down? All that happened is that they will no longer bundle an old version of XQuartz with every new release of OSX, which is probably a good thing because it will probably make it less hacky to install a newer version.

How many Mac users actually use X? I assume a fraction of the audience of HN does, but, again, the last time I used X on a Mac it was on a PPC G3.



Inkscape only runs via X on Mac.


Witch is terrible unfortunate.

You can't use copy paste because it copies a raster version instead of a vector one.

This makes inkscape totally unusable. I tried to compile a native GTK version but letters and icons will appear as little boxes. It was more useful that way that the X version(at least this way you could guess what the boxes were).



Note:

  However, this will also prevent copying text from any
  X11 application to Mac OS X ones. It will not prevent
  copying text from OS X to X11.
But:

  When you just want to make a copy of an object within
  Inkscape, you should use duplicate (Ctrl-D) rather than
  copy/paste (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V). Duplicate does not interact
  with the X11/OSX clipboards.


Hm, copy & paste inside Inkscape worked for me well.


Matlab requires X.




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