Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
- Subject: Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
- From: TR <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:46:24 -0800
Thanks for your help. A few more questions
On 1/24/03 4:47 AM, "lenny bruce" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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?
No...what is it?
>> 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
When I start up Gnome it tells me I'm using an unsupported window
manager...but I'm using sawfish, which I thought was what gnome used?
>> 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
Whats the difference between typing "exec gnome-session" and just
"gnome-session"?
>> 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
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