June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
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X11-Based Applications and Libraries
You can use Fink to install many X11-based applications, such as the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), xfig/transfig, ImageMagick, nedit, and many others. Because Fink understands dependencies, installing some of these applications will cause Fink to first install several other packages. For example, because the text editor nedit depends on Motif libraries, Fink will first install lesstif. (This also gives you the Motif window manager, mwm.) Similarly, when you install the GIMP via Fink, you will also install the packages for GNOME, GTK+, and glib because Fink handles any package dependencies you might encounter.
You can also use Fink (see Chapter 27) to install libraries directly. For example, the following command can install the X11-based Qt libraries:
$ fink install qtThis is an Aqua version of Qt for Mac OS X (available from Trolltech, http://www.trolltech.com); however, Qt applications don’t automatically use the library. Instead, you need to recompile and link the application against the Aqua version of Qt, which may not always be a trivial task.
Another interesting development is the port of
KDE to Mac OS X. As of this writing,
Konqueror had been ported, and a port of Koffice was underway. To
keep abreast of developments pertaining to KDE on Mac OS X, see
http://ranger.befunk.com/blog/.
Aqua-X11 Interactions
Because X11-based applications rely on different graphics systems, even when running XDarwin in rootless mode, GUI interactions ...
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