Changing X11 interface to something better

Jasper Frumau jasperfrumau at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 22:03:12 PST 2011


What different WMs are there? Any tutorials out there if need be? Minimizing
is not really necessary, but if I cannot resize an X11 app window that would
be a real impediment..

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 21:32, Jasper Frumau wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > How could I change the X11(XQuartz 2.3.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple56)) GUI
> to
> > make it look better? How can I change the skin/theme?
>
> quartz-wm just results in using the Carbon API to draw windows that have
> the native look.  If you want something else, you'll need to pick a
> different WM... but then you'll lose support for things like minimizing to
> Dock.app.
>
>
>
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