Jan 10, '03 09:22:51AM • Contributed by: ClarkGoble
- If you had a pre-existing XDarwin or Fink installation you must delete ~/.xinitrc or change the window manager in it to "exec quartz-wm" If you don't it will start up with an xterm with no boundary that is partially under the menu bar.
- If executing applications from Terminal instead of xterm you have to type "open-x11 program" instead of just the program name. If you are used to Fink and XDarwin this wasn't necessary. To get it back to the way things used to work, add "setenv DISPLAY :0.0" to your .tcshrc file.
- Check you paths in xterm. They sometimes may not be reading /sw depending upon how you set your .tchsrc. Also notice that Apple's installed XWindows apps are in /usr/X11R6/bin.
- You can start up kde under Apple's X11 by typing "open-x11 startkde &" although the mix of interfaces is kind of goofy.
- XDarwin isn't gone so you can still run the regular gnome or kde if you need.
- If you want X11 apps to try, go download Fink. Fink has many X11 applications. A few to try are AbiWord, Gnumeric, and of course Gimp.
- The version of OpenOffice released a few days ago is incompatible with Apple's X11. It works fine with XDarwin though. If you have the slightly earlier version, you can run OpenOffice by typing:
% Applications/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/soffice"
- Note that with Apple's X11 app you can cut and copy between OSX applications and X11 applications. Very nice.
