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 It is reliable and provides hardware OpenGL acceleration.įor 10.5 and 10.6, we recommend getting a newer version of the X11 serverīecause the graphics support is much better

Known Problems with the X windows Version of Chimera RequirementsĬhimera runs on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), and 10.6 (Snow Leopard),Ī X11 server must be installed for Chimera to start.įor 10.4, we recommend Apple's X server (X11).

With the current port of the Aqua Tk windowing toolkit have been resolved. With Chimera 1.4, we now recommend the Aqua version because most of Chimera for Mac OS X is available in X windows and native Aqua versions.

X11 for mac os 10.4