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| Developer | XonX |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Display server |
XDarwin is an obsoleteX Window System (X11)display server for theDarwinoperating system and early versions ofMac OS X. XDarwin allows one to use programs written for X11 on those operating systems.
XDarwin was ported by theXonX project, an offshoot project created byXFree86 developers. It is integrated in the upstreamsource code of theXFree86 andXorg servers, where it is maintained.
Originally, XDarwin required an X window manager to run. For this task, a window manager calledOroborOSX was created; this was based on Oroborus, another X window manager, but modified to look like the native Mac OS window manager. More recent versions of XDarwin can also run in rootless mode, which is to say that it integrates with the native window manager instead of requiring such a program specifically for X.
Before the introduction ofApple'sX11.app, XDarwin was the only X11 server available for OS X. According to the XonX project, X11.app itself contains code from XDarwin. Programs such asOpenOffice.org use XDarwin to run in the X11 windowing environment, either in a rootless or full-screen mode. A version of the program was created forMac OS X Panther or higher that runs in the nativeAqua interface.
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