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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