Welcome to the Xquartz project

Intro

The Xquartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.org X Window System that runs on Mac OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple has shipped with OS X since version 10.5.

Latest Release

2008.06.17

X11.pkg version 2.2.3 released

Official OS-X Updates and Xquartz

Apple included some of the work done in this project in their 10.5.2 update and will likely include further changes in possible future updates of 10.5.x. It is suggested that you install the latest XQuartz release after updating to 10.5.2 (and any future 10.5.x or security updates).

10.5.2

10.5.2's version of X11 is somewhere between the 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 packages released through this site. The launchd mechanism to start X11 in 10.5.2 is unique to Apple's 10.5.2 and never appeared in a release from this site in its current form (though it was essentially integrated into xinit for 2.1.2).

2008-002 Security Update

The 2008-002 Security Update version of X11 is the same as 10.5.2 with some security fixes applied.

10.5.3

10.5.3 does not contain any updates beyond those in the 2008-002 Security Update

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General X11 Information

X11 on the Mac