X11 Mac OS X

X11 Mac OS X

The XQuartz project was originally based on the version of X11 included in Mac OS X v10.5.

There have since been multiple releases of XQuartz with fixes, support for new features and additional refinements to the X11 experience.

Apple is a contributor to the XQuartz project and has worked to ensure that X11 works as expected with macOS and latest available versions of XQuartz.

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This page deals with issues specific to installation on OS X.

If you need something more current than what is in fink, or you just dont want to install fink, then use this.

Paul Emsley and I have invested considerable time into getting this to work well, and it is the best pathway to obtain the most stable version.

Be sure to use the so-called unstable branch of fink to get the latest pre-releases of coot: How to Activate the Unstable Branch.

When this is set up, simply pressing on the F8 key on your keyboard will result in a ray-traced image of the display popping up in Preview.

Preview in turn will let you enhance the image, as it comes out a bit subdued by default.

The following screenshot shows how this enhancement works.

You can see I tweaked exposure slightly, and gamma a bit, and saturation a fair amount).

Using the File Get Info dialog, you can program this applet to open all.map and all.mtz files, if you want to, making these files double-clickable.

The fink version of coot forces you to do so, so it should just work.

Then all you have to do is cross your eyes and you see stereo.

Never mind that this will destroy your vision and eye muscles, it works really well.

I only got the map displayed on one side until Paul suggested including the following in my.coot(rc) startup file.

Install X11 For Mac Os X