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