Xquartz is a port of X11 which uses Quartz to draw what is requested by the X11 API.ĭesktop Environment does not really exist as a separate part it is just how macOS works. Windows on the screen but not there are also Core Text and Core Images. It would probably be better to try to understand the macOS architecture rather than map it to X11, it is just different.Īpple's document that show the graphics part of the OS is hereįor X11 Window Server in macOS the nearest is Core Graphics which draw graphical components e.g. The counterpart on Linux would be something like GTK and Gnome, or QT and KDE.īasically they names you use are specific to X11 and OSX does not have things which match those exact components, in the same way that MS Windows or OS/2 does not have the same parts as X11. It defines the looks of widgets/controls, menus, etc. XQuartz is simply an X11 server built on top of the Quartz rendering library.Īqua is the name of the Apple graphical user interface. There's also a Quarts GPU accelerated compositor On Linux, the counterpart 2D library is Cairo or similar. Quartz is a 2D text and graphics rendering library. The "Desktop Environment" does not have a single counterpart on macOS rather it is a combination of multiple macOS parts - most notably WindowServer, Dock and perhaps Finder. Here the window server is the process named simply "WindowServer" on a default macOS installation. Instead they use the native Apple supplied systems. However note that "native macOS apps" do not use the X11 protocol, Xorg or anything like that. Wayland is a different display protocol than X111, and is not currently supported on macOS. The terms for these things on macOS are the same as on Linux as it is the same technology (i.e. It is the exact same programs, just recompiled on macOS. You can use many of the same desktop environments on top of macOS and XQuartz as you can on Linux. This is called XQuartz, it is based on the same Xorg as you'll find on Linux. If you want to be notified when a new version of i3 is released, please subscribe to the announce mailing list.MacOS has implementations of the X11 protocol as you're used to on Linux. If you prefer to download a tarball, or if you cannot use git for whatever reason, you may download the current stable branch from.
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