#XQUARTZ MAVERICKS INSTALL#

Without XQuartz … you do not install XQuartz and run ROOT with a native back-end. With XQuartz you’re running X-server as a separate process and using X11 back-end with a typical X11 graphics and quite standard X11-like behavior/WM-manager. So you probably already know why you do not like XQuartz? Is there no other possibility, because I didn’t like XQuartz? And what advantages / disadvantages do I have with XQuartz?

Open a new terminal and start using root. profile file and add the following line anywhere you want source ~/Downloads/root_v6.02.08/bin/thisroot.sh

I presume you download root_v6.02.08. into your ~/Downloads folder, so the path to your compiled ROOT is ~/Download/root-6.02.08 Now keep track of the absolute path of your root-6.02.08 folder. Wait for 15 - 30 mins and you are done (Unless tons of error then post them here and other will help figure it out). Don’t bother about how many core your machine has, just go with the standard “make” $ cd root-6.02.08 Then go into the directory just extracted and configure and compile. Just download the source code for ROOT 6.02/08 (or ROOT 5.34/30) and unzip $ gunzip root_v6.02.08. Since you already have Xcode and Command Line Dev tools, you are already set ( I assume you also have XQuartz 2.7.7 installed /landing/) In my experience running ROOT on Mac OSX, its best to just compile root from source code.

Xquartz mavericks