Michael_LaCorte wrote: > That was my concern, however, I have been able to get it to run under Crossover, it was just unbearable slow. It might help if I explained Macports a little. > > Crossover for Mac uses its own X11 server. I sincerely wish that Jeremy and company would feed back to Apple what is needed to fix these problems. > The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac. > So does Fink. The purpose of both projects is to 'port' Unix/Linux applications to work with MacOSX which is based on a flavor of BSD Unix. This is not trivial in most cases. > That is the definition that is on the homepage of the Macports website. So are there any Linux tools that I could use to upgrade my X11 to support 256-bit colors? > > > You could try installing the MacPorts version of X to see if the XQuartz project has figured out, on their own, how to fix this situation. James McKenzie
