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Re: X11 and the new powerbook



On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Robert T Wyatt wrote:

I tried both releases the one from opendarwin.org and Xfree86
Darwin-ppc-7.x release and the behave exzactly the same way.
Also when X starts up from quartz in full screen mode and i use twm i
can't switch back to quartz using apple-option-a, I have to kill
the process to get back to quartz. I'll try playing around with the new
opendarwin code some more tonight.

roger

> Like opendarwin.org?
>
> At 7:38 PM -0600 3/17/05, Roger Midmore wrote:
> >I just bought a new 17" powerbook and want to install X windows on it,
> >however I've had some problems. First X will only run on top of Quartz and
> >only with twm, if I try another wm in full screen it just pops out. And
> >when I run it from the console without quartz itcan only be run as the
> >root user, when it loads it shows first a desktop of OS X then proompts
> >for full screen or rootless. And if I try to use another wm besides twm it
> >will hang. Has anyone else had similar problems?
> >
> >roger
>
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