XDarwin and Sawfish

serranoserrano
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in macOS edited January 2014
ok - i've got xdarwin and sawfish fink installed, how do i configure xdarwin to use sawfish as the wm? i also tried enlightenment, which auto-configured- however i'd prefer sawfish, enlightenment didn't like being rootless too much. help appreciated, starfleetx?

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    stimulistimuli Posts: 564member
    In linux, there's a file in your home directory called .xinitrc



    The last line of it says 'exec something' where something is your window manager, ie sawfish or blackbox or whatnot.



    here's mine:



    #!/bin/sh

    # $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

    # Set locale that accomodates nifty fonts

    LC=C; export LC

    LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL



    userresources=$HOME/.Xresources

    usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap

    sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources

    sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap



    # merge in defaults and keymaps



    if [ -f $sysresources ]; then

    xrdb -merge $sysresources

    fi



    if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then

    xmodmap $sysmodmap

    fi



    if [ -f $userresources ]; then

    xrdb -merge $userresources

    fi



    if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then

    xmodmap $usermodmap

    fi



    # start some nice programs

    bbsload -w &

    bbpager -w &

    aterm &

    gkrellm &

    exec fluxbox
  • Reply 2 of 6
    serranoserrano Posts: 1,806member
    thank you thank you



    blackbox up and runnning



    [ 05-25-2002: Message edited by: janitor ]</p>
  • Reply 3 of 6
    proud_ibook_ownerproud_ibook_owner Posts: 12member
    How do you work XDarwin? I installed it in the past and it didnt seem to work for me... and will it run x86 based applications? What Window Managers are available for it? I kinda like KDE...
  • Reply 4 of 6
    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    You can't run x86 apps on Darwin or OS X (ignoring VPC).



    XDarwin ought to support any window manager.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    Gnome window managers work on it, plain old X window managers (window maker etc) work on it, KDE doesn't.



    See <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#kde"; target="_blank">http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#kde</a>; for more KDE on Mac OS X/Darwin info.



    Barto
  • Reply 6 of 6
    serranoserrano Posts: 1,806member
    [quote]Originally posted by Barto:

    <strong>Gnome window managers work on it, plain old X window managers (window maker etc) work on it, KDE doesn't.



    See <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#kde"; target="_blank">http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#kde</a>; for more KDE on Mac OS X/Darwin info.



    Barto</strong><hr></blockquote>



    beat me to it



    fink can install blackbox, enlightenment, windowmaker, fvwm1, fvwm2, icevm, oroborus, oroborus2, pwm, sawfish, xfce
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