Changing X11 interface to something better

[Jasper Frumau]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Jeremy Huddleston
<jeremyhu at macports.org>wrote:

>
> 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.
>

thanks, going to look into that.

>
> > 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?
>

Was just wondering out loud as you mentioned certain things were not
supported in other WMs, but I guess minimizing to Dock.app is the only one?

>
> >
> > 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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