Changing X11 interface to something better

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jan 18, 2011, at 22:03, Jasper Frumau wrote:

> What different WMs are there?

gnome, kde, and xfce are the more common ones... blackbox is another minimalist one (but IIRC someone reported issues with it to x11-users but didn't provide any specific information).  I'm sure I'm offending some by not mentioning others, but that's that.

> Any tutorials out there if need be?

Yeah, search the MacPorts site for the gnome guide.

> Minimizing
> is not really necessary, but if I cannot resize an X11 app window that would
> be a real impediment..

I can't think of any wm that doesn't support resizing.  Why would you mention that?  Are you having issues resizing with quartz-wm?

> 
> 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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