switching between Apple's X11 and XDarwin
switching between Apple's X11 and XDarwin
- Subject: switching between Apple's X11 and XDarwin
- From: maturin <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 06:42:25 -0600
When the Apple X11 beta and XDarwin 4.3 were out, it seemed that the
only major difference was a couple binaries: quartz-wm and xaqua, I
think. I had installed Apple's X11, mved these aside; installed
XDarwin and then mved the apple bits back in.
This meant that I could use a script to swap out .xinitrc files and
start either X11.app or XDarwin.app.
This allowed for either rootless aqua (apple) or rooted
(xdarwin/windowmaker) modes depending upon my needs/moods.
So now we have Apple X11 based on 4.3 and the "much improved" XDarwin
4.4 out.
I would like to install both to compare:
mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/apple/X11R6; install XDarwin and then
mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/xdarwin/X11R6
I could then swap out a link (ln -s) to point to either implementation.
Wouldn't I have to do this for /etc/X11 also?
Extrapolating from there- is there a command line switch for X11.app
for rooted/rootless?
I see:
/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 -br
but that is not the same. I was hoping to start X11.app from the
command line and toggle rooted/rootless while swapping .xinitrc files
to switch window managers from quartz-wm to say, fvwm.
Lastly, does X11.app take an -file [userxinitrc] or similar argument?
I don't see it listed.
Cheers, Moon
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