The Xquartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.org X Window System that runs on Mac OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that. Hello World Basic Programming Knowledge about X11. If you want to run for example 2D vector application like InkScape ( on your Mac you need to install X11.

Here's how you can run the GIMP and other X11 applications full screen in Mac OS X Lion. Use Mission Control to create a new desktop space for your X11 applications to run on. Launching X11 applications from a Terminal(.app) window (or one from another non-X11 terminal program) is straightforward with current versions of X11 on OS 10.5 and later. Enter the application's name as you would for a command-line program, OS X will start X11 if it isn't already running, and then run your application. In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger X11.app was an optional install included on the install DVD. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion installed X11.app by default, but from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on Apple dropped dedicated support for X11.app, with users being directed to the open source XQuartz project (to which Apple contributes) instead.

About X11 for Mac: X11 is no longer included with Mac, but X11 server and client libraries are available from the XQuartz project. For more information:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201341

XQuartz 2.7.11 | Version 2.7.11 | Released 10-29-2016 | OS X 10.6.3 or later

The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on OS X.
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X11 Shortcuts (i.e. Copy & Paste, Menus, Scrollbars, etc):

When in an X11 application, to get the Main Options contextual menu:

What Is X11 On Mac

Control + Mouse Click
To get the VT Options contextual menu:
Control + Option + Mouse Click
To paste:
Option + Click
To Paste between a Mac OS X native app and an X11 app, first copy from the Mac OS X app (Edit menu > Copy), then Option + Click in the X11 app.
To Paste between an X11 app and a Mac OS X app, in the X11 file menu, select Edit > Copy and then select Edit > Paste in the Mac OS X app menu.

X11 Customization and PATH export:

X11 For Mac Os Catalina

To have the scrollbar automatically appear when a new xterm window is created from the X11 menu (and to perhaps source the shell files so that PATH's are kept, etc):
In Apple X11's Applications menu, choose Customize and change the entry for xterm to: xterm -sb

Install X11 On Mac

You can also make it (for Fink): source /sw/bin/init.sh ; xterm -sb
Or, shell startup file specific (bash): source .profile ; xterm -sb

Os X X11

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For more support: https://www.xquartz.org/Support.html

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Owner:	Dora L.	Group:	Rice University
Created:	2017-06-13 15:57 CDT	Updated:	2017-06-13 16:25 CDT
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