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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

by Ernest E. Rothman, Brian Jepson
September 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
7h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Desktops and Window Managers

You can do a lot of X11 customization in XDarwin. The most significant customization is in your choice of Window manager. To start customizing, you would typically use the .xinitrc script in the your home directory. A sample .xinitrc script is provided in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.

Using the script as a starting point, you can specify which X11-based applications to start when XDarwin is launched, including which window manager you’d like to use as your default. The default window manager for XDarwin is the tab window manager (or twm), but many other DTEs are available. You can visit the following web sites to get instructions and binaries for a wide variety of window managers and DTEs.

Once you’ve installed XFree86, you will probably want to install additional X11 applications, window managers, and perhaps other DTEs. One of the easiest ways to install additional window managers is to use Fink. Table 9-1 lists some of the window managers and desktops that can be installed via Fink. (For information on installing and updating Fink, see Section 6.1 in Chapter 6.)

Table 9-1. Window managers available for Fink

Window manager/desktop

Fink package name

Blackbox

blackbox

Enlightenment

enlightenment

FVWM

fvwm, fvwm2

GNOME

bundle-gnome

IceWM

icewm

KDE

As of this writing, support for KDE is available, but is experimental. ...

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