Will make it impossible to translate and scale structures with the mouse. Note that if you have a one-button mouse, the X11 provided withġ0.5 does not have three-button emulation on by default, which We recommend installing the XQuartz version.
If the X11 you install does not work properly, do a software update to get the latest version.X11 is not installed by default - you will need If you had X11 installed on OS X 10.4 and upgraded to 10.5,
Installing X11 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Will restore the default preference settings. Reissuing the commands with false instead of true The settings are saved in your ~/Library/Preferences directory, X11 must be restarted after any of these settings are changed. Type the following command in a Mac Terminal window:ĭefaults write 11 enable_stereo -bool true To tell X11 to make stereo visuals available, Workstation-class graphics card and a graphics driver configured for stereo. When viewed with special synchronized glasses. Otherwise known as sequential stereo, is a rapid flickering This preferenceĬauses a window-activating mouse click on an X window to also be processed Normally Mac OS X swallows window-activating mouse events. Mouse click, use the Mac X server wm_click_through preferenceīy typing the following command in a Mac Terminal window:ĭefaults write 11 wm_click_through -bool true It just activates the Chimera window and another
When you are using a native Mac application (not X windows)Īnd then click on a menu within the Chimera window the mouse click does Is active and you move the mouse to another X window. Not Aqua applications, so it only has an effect when an X window currently The wm_ffm setting only effects X applications, The default behavior of the Quartz window manager from the Apple X serverġ.0 release is to require you to click on each window before you can Set this "focus follows mouse" preference by typing the followingĭefaults write 11 wm_ffm -bool true
When you move the mouse from one Chimera window to another you canĪutomatically have the new window activated without requiring a mouseĬlick. Two X11 preference settings help avoid extra mouse clicks when To install it by the following procedure: If the application is missing or does not run, you will need To see if X11 is installed properly, try running If you bought a new Mac or did a fresh install of 10.4, If you had X11 installed on OS X 10.3 and upgraded to 10.4, (standard location /Applications/Utilities/X11). X11 comes with Mac OS X as an optional component (although XQuartz won't support Mac OS X 10.6 until version 2.4.1 comes out). It is reliable and provides hardware OpenGL acceleration.įor 10.5 and 10.6, we recommend getting a newer version of the X11 serverīecause the graphics support is much better
Chimera for Mac OS X is available in X windows and native Aqua versions.