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: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 03:38:00 -0800
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 12:46 AM, TR wrote:
Thanks for your help. A few more questions
no problem
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?
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html
something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PATH</key>
<string>$PATH:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:~/bin:~/sbin:~/usr/bin:~/usr/sbin:~/
usr/local/bin:~/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/
usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/sbin:/sw/bin/
mldonkey-distrib</string>
<key>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</key>
<string>$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:~/lib:/opt/lib:/sw/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/
lib:/sw/lib/X11:/usr/local/lib</string>
<key>DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH</key>
<string>$LD_LIBRARY_PATH</string>
<key>MANPATH</key>
<string>$MANPATH:~/man:~/usr/local/man:/opt/man:/sw/man:/sw/share/
man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/
X11R6/man</string>
</dict>
</plist>
I used to be big on setting the display variable
but I find it really gums up the works
when you're trying to do X11 Forwarding...
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?
gnome can use any window manager but you're correct that it seems to
have unusually specific support for sawfish. there are no unsupported
window managers in gnome.
I really like XFWM/XFCE.
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
What's the difference between typing "exec gnome-session" and just
"gnome-session"?
I think it ends the script...
like all the previous program-opening commands
are followed by "&" ampersands
so you can continue with the script...
this just ends it.
best advice: STAY AWAY FROM GNU-DARWIN
you'll regret it if they lure you into installing even one little
library in /usr/local/lib... it always sounds like such a good idea at
the time and then everything dies... and their advice is ALWAYS the
culprit.
You don't need your belly 'cause there's nothing to eat
You don't need your heart 'cause it just can't be beat
You don't need your mouth 'cause you talk too much
You don't need your crotch, ah you know it's only a crutch
But you need your head
lenny bruce I am not a comedian,
email@hidden I am Lenny Bruce.
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