Re: How to replace Aqua/quartz-wm with default WM of choice?
Re: How to replace Aqua/quartz-wm with default WM of choice?
- Subject: Re: How to replace Aqua/quartz-wm with default WM of choice?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:14:51 -0700
Well, OS X doesn't "boot into quartz-wm" ... XQuartz is just an application that runs in OS X's native windowing environment. It is an X11 server which uses quartz-wm as a window manager. You can change that to whatever you want by doing something like:
mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
echo "USERWM=twm" > ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
but it sounds like you're trying to replace WindowServer with an X11 server. That's not something supported here, and the Xdarwin DDX is no longer maintained. You can try xorg-server-1.[0123].x or XFree86 (the xfree86 port in MacPorts might work).
If you really don't want any of the benefits of OS X and prefer an X11 server, why don't you just install FreeBSD ?
On Sep 19, 2010, at 18:45, James Hozier wrote:
>> From what I've read, Aqua and quartz-wm work on different levels, Aqua
> being the lowest in the GUI management of OS X, then X11/quartz running
> on top of that. Maybe I am confused or misinformed, but this management
> of graphics seems a bit confusing.
>
> All I want to do is make OS X boot into my WM of choice. I have no need
> for the dock/menu bar, nor the Desktop or other software like iTunes,
> etc. So it'd be optimal to just save the resources by disabling (or
> remove) Aqua/quartz so that my WM can run smoothly. I'm not comfortable
> with the behavior either, which I cannot change in the System Settings
> anyway.
>
> Is there any way to achieve this?
>
>
>
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