Run Aqua apps from X11 after booting in console mode

Nov 10, '03 10:43:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you log in to Darwin with >console, and then navigate your way to the executable X11 inside the X11 package in /Applications -> Utilities, you'll find that you can run it.

From the xterm, you can then run many normal Aqua applications. For example, I'm typing this into Safari right now this way. The dock isn't running, and neither is the Finder. This is sheer weirdness, and it no doubt stems from being able to run X11 1.0 as a root window. From top, I see that I'm running quartz-wm, Xquartz, X11, and a few other things.

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