The Tao of Mac
Before X.org came along, I made a note of this:
The last wide-spread functional enhancement exported by the X server might well be the Shape extension, designed (in the hot tub) at the 1989 Winter Usenix in San Diego. (quoted from here)
These days most people use (or are only aware of alternatives like Terminal Services, VNC, or NX, but the ancient lore is still valuable.
Resources:
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Feb’13 | splitwm | Simultaneous tiled and floating layouts |
| May’10 | partiwm | screen-like management of individual windows, with proper disconnection and re-attachment. |
| Jun’09 | Apple x11-users mailing list | The archives can be useful. |
| lbxproxy HOWTO | If you want to get down and dirty | |
| Xming | An interesting server for Windows | |
| WeirdX | written in Java, of all things |