Re: using X11 to run another window manager?
Re: using X11 to run another window manager?
- Subject: Re: using X11 to run another window manager?
- From: Craig Sutherland <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:18:04 -0600
Tim-
A couple of places to start. Apple has an excellent X-11 FAQ on their
website. Take some time with it. Fink's site fink.sourceforge.net has a
lot of documentation. You can browse their or download it.
For a start, you can copy the file /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to
your home directory giving it the name .xinitrc. The dot makes it
invisible and is the name needed for X11 to use that new file you
created instead of the file you copied. You can edit .xinitrc without
worrying that you are changing essential system files.
You will find that there are window managers suck as twm and fvwm2
which control the window appearances and some functions and there are
desktop managers suck as kde and gnome that are much more extensive and
duplicate many of the functions of Aqua and Finder. Then there are
managers that are in between such as blackbox. Having said all that,
there are my definitions and not a universal set of descriptors.
Craig Sutherland
"Who is John Galt"
On Nov 21, 2003, at 4:31 PM, Tim D. Middleton wrote:
>> The name of the window manager that runs by default using Apple's
>> X11.app is called quartz-wm.
>> The general way that you can override this is to create a text file
>> in your
>> home directory called ".xinitrc". The contents of this file are the
>> commands that you'd like to run with X11 is started. The final line
>> should
>> be the window manager that you'd like to run. "gnome-session" for
>> Gnome,
>> "startkde" for KDE (I think), "sawfish" for sawfish, etc.
> Great news Sean, thank you.
> Where would I find the instructions on how to set these other window
> managers up under panther? I am presuming that I will have to use
> "fink"? Also does anyone know a "beginners" tutorial for this?
>
> Sincerely.
> Tim D. Middleton
> email@hidden
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