Once you have installed windowmaker through Fink, run wmaker.inst
from the commandline. That will set you up for wm without touching /
etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file. It also does other things to setup wm
completely. However, it should be run for each user, as it is user
specific.
On 20 Mar 2007, at 15:30, Johnny Eugene Croy wrote:
> Jo,
>
> FYI: Of course the "exec windowmaker" will only work if you have
> it downloaded (presumably via fink).
>
> - J
>
>
> On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Johnny Eugene Croy wrote:
>
>> Jo,
>>
>> I don't think that you need to remove Apple's X11. You can run it
>> in full window mode by opening X11 and then going to X11 -->
>> Preferences --> Output. Then choose the "Enable the Enter Full
>> Screen Mode" option. That will put X11 into full screen mode when
>> it starts. To exit out of full screen mode you just have to hit
>> "Command-Option-A".
>>
>> As for the windowmaker window manager feature, you can tell X11 to
>> use this instead of apple quartz by modifying the xinitrc file
>> found in /etc/X11/xinit/. Find the line that reads,
>>
>> exec quartz-wm
>>
>> and replace it with
>>
>> exec windowmaker
>>
>> This will then use windowmaker as the window manager instead of
>> quartz-wm. Hope that this helps!
>>
>> - Johnny
>>
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:14 PM, Jo Claridge wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As Murali suggested I am trying to get X11.app running in full
>>> screen mode using windowmaker but I
>>> can't get rid of the Apple proprietry X11. Is it neccessary to
>>> use xorg? If I can't use the Apple X11 how
>>> do I remove it?
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> jo Claridge
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