Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
- Subject: Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
- From: lenny bruce <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:47:04 -0800
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 10:32 PM, TR wrote:
I successfully installed Apple's X11.app and XFree86 and all that, and
have
gotten my applications to work fine.
Didja do the mysterious ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist configuration?
I have also installed several other windows managers other than
quartz-wm
(sawfish, etc), and I have gotten them to work by editing the
~/.xinitrc
file, but is there an easier way to switch windows managers without
editing
the file and restarting X11.app?
gnomecc has a window manager caplet that changes them on the fly...
some like Window Maker and AfterStep let you exit them gracefully
and switch to other ones
Also, I would like to run a desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME,
but I
am having a hard time figuring out how. Is it even possible with
Apple's X11
implementation, or do I need XDarwin or OroborOSX? I have already
installed
GNOME, and I have gotten individual apps to open...but I have no idea
how to
get the desktop.
exec gnome-session
exec startkde
Also, if I were to get the desktop environment working, could I have it
displayed on my second monitor while still using Mac OS X on the main
monitor and just switch back and forth, like Virtual PC?
I suppose, if you set the DISPLAY environment setting correctly
but generally it's a rootless affair in a single window.
some guy made a very cool program called xroot
that makes a little square representing the missing root window
for those window managers that absolutely require you to click there
You're at the bottom of the ladder
Someone may try to tell you where you should start
But the words, they never matter
If you can feel it in your heart
Then you can...
lenny bruce I am not a comedian,
email@hidden I am Lenny Bruce.
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