Re: X11 for dummies...
Re: X11 for dummies...
- Subject: Re: X11 for dummies...
- From: Don MacQueen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:37:20 -0800
At 3:50 PM +0000 11/13/03, Joe Cirone wrote:
My situation is this, I want to run Open Office (openoffice.org) on
a Mac running Panther OS10.3. The application requires X11 to be
installed and running on my system At this apple page
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html it states in this
question...
Q: Does X11 work with a previously installed version of XDarwin?
A: We recommend you back up and move aside your previous
installation of XDarwin and then install X11 for Mac OS X. A few
people have been able to get X11 for Mac OS X and XDarwin to coexist.
So I'm a bit confused. Is XDarwin in-fact the Terminal 1.4.1?
No.
Furthermore, XDarwin is not the same thing as Apple's X11. Underneath
both XDarwin and Apple's X11 is something called XFree86. You either
install Apple's X11, or you install XFree86. If you install XFree86,
you get along with it XDarwin. That's what the Q and A you quoted
refers to. If you install Apple's X11, you also get an underlying
XFree86, because Apple used XFree86 as the basis of their X11.
However, it is a modified version of XFree86 (and you may not see the
name "XFree86" used in any obvious way). Therefore, you either
install Apple's X11, or XFree86/XDarwin, but not both.
OpenOffice may or may not "require X11", i.e., Apple's X11. I'm not
sure. It does require X Windows. You have a choice of either of two
implementations of X Windows for OS X. Either Apple's, which they
call "X11", or the one that consists of XDarwin and XFree86. I don't
know which one works better with Open Office.
If so should I disable or remove this so I can run X11?
No, not necessary. The Terminal application is independent of X11.
By removing the Terminal will I be sacrificing anything and using X11?
Removing Terminal would be sacrificing a lot.
I need help getting this X11 application to open up with Open
Office on my Mac. I've installed the Open Office application
already on the Mac.
Also when I open X11 it open up in a full screen version and I do
know how to adjust that to a smaller screen can anyone help with
that?
I don't believe this is the default configuration for Apple's X11. So
you must have changed something. What matters is whether OpenOffice
requires that X windows be in fullscreen mode (i.e., having a root
window). Unfortunately, I don't know whether or not it matters to
OpenOffice. (But I doubt it.) You can't adjust fullscreen mode to
use a smaller screen; X Windows is not designed to do that.
Can anyone help?
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