The company is making a play to lure Unix and Linux users to its Mac OS X operating system. Will a windowing environment do the trick? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Apple posts X11 tutorial Apple has posted a useful guide to configuring and running X11 (Unix) applications from within Mac OS X. As the tutorial explains, "The X Window System (more commonly called ...

Apple has introduced X11 for Mac OS X. The software enables applications based on the X11 windowing environment to run side-by-side with native Mac OS X applications on the same desktop. X11 is ...

Apple has posted an update to its implementation of X11, the X Window System used by some Unix applications. The 51MB download is available from Apple’s Web site. X11 makes it possible for Mac OS X to ...

Now that you know what X11 is good for, it’s time to play with it. First, launch /Applications/Utilities/X11.app. If this doesn’t exist, install it from an OS X ...

If you regularly use any X11 apps in Lion, such as the Gimp image editor, then you might dislike to the confusion of each X11 app utilizing its own menu bar. A way to make X11 apps easier to work with ...