Post AY1KtxWdPmAV77PPw8 by sgued@pouet.chapril.org
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(DIR) Post #AY1KbmtiBpz4wKXQwK by gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org
2023-07-24T11:44:54Z
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On the left the macOS X11 logoOn the right the new #twitter logoThey worked real hard on this one
(DIR) Post #AY1KtxWdPmAV77PPw8 by sgued@pouet.chapril.org
2023-07-24T11:48:51Z
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@gabrielesvelto Not to be confused with the Unicode character 𝕏 (Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X)https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
(DIR) Post #AY1KtySlvcfm1QbqYS by feld@bikeshed.party
2023-07-24T13:22:42.765010Z
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yeah this is literally just Elon saying "wait a minute, Apple has U+F8FF , I want my own character too"
(DIR) Post #AY1TX4UIGKULdMTVuS by pogo_thepossum@paquita.masto.host
2023-07-24T11:55:18Z
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@gabrielesvelto macOS X11? Fine, but it goes back to 1984, for unix environments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#The_MIT_X_Consortium_and_the_X_Consortium,_Inc.
(DIR) Post #AY1TX58hq4oZehNmts by gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org
2023-07-24T11:58:53Z
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@pogo_thepossum that's the icon I had on my machine and I didn't know if it was Apple's design or just reused an existing one
(DIR) Post #AY1TX5jDeK1PTwSwoS by pogo_thepossum@paquita.masto.host
2023-07-24T12:07:50Z
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@gabrielesvelto I actually didn't know macOS used the X system! I know the underlying OS was BSD, which is close to unix, but not about the windows manager. I have lots of experience with unix, very little with mac ...
(DIR) Post #AY1TX6HFbnFBBUO7rE by m0xee@social.librem.one
2023-07-24T14:59:49Z
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@pogo_thepossum They don't, it's just an X server that works on top of Quartz, a lot like XWayland does. They used to provide it for compatibility reasons, so you can port X11 software easily. I'm not even sure it's included by default nowadays, probably has to be installed separately. @gabrielesvelto
(DIR) Post #AY1TyzxYgtQZhOTpLc by gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org
2023-07-24T15:04:51Z
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@m0xee @pogo_thepossum it was introduced in 2003 in macOS 10.3 and even back then it wasn't part of the default installation, you had to explicitly ask the OS installer to include it
(DIR) Post #AY1UofhNGYF5v1Y8wq by m0xee@social.librem.one
2023-07-24T15:14:13Z
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@gabrielesvelto Yeah, same as "BSD subsystem", but at least it came with the distro, later they've made it downloadable separately from the App Store and at some point considered abandoning that port completely AFAIK. I'm not sure what the current status is, I've given up on Mac OS X (or just OS X, or macOS or whatever they call it now 🤪) some time around 10.11.@pogo_thepossum
(DIR) Post #AY1VBhZcSeX2OUu77I by pogo_thepossum@paquita.masto.host
2023-07-24T15:15:38Z
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@m0xee @gabrielesvelto I see. I am not even sure about the differences between XWayland and Xorg, I am just an end user. As long as those windows work, I am happy!