Changing X11 interface to something better

[Jasper Frumau]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Jeremy Huddleston
<jeremyhu at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Jan 19, 2011, at 00:05, Jasper Frumau wrote:
>
> >>> 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?
>
> That's the big one.  Obviously the X11 preferences which correspond to
> quartz-wm won't work either.
>

@ Hararl I did a port search 'window manager' and found many indeed! When I
ran :
port search 'window manager' | grep gnome
I got:
metacity @2.30.3 (gnome, x11-wm)
while I thought Gnome is a Window Manager in itself. Then I Googled and
found http://xwinman.org/gnome.php saying it is not and that metacity is
used by Gnome. Learning new things every day here!

@ Jeremey I see. Well if I can use another in parallel just tot see how it
is that would be great.  I already have Gnome Desktop installed via MacPorts
as I am already familiar with it. Here are the current ports:
port installed | grep gnome
  gnome-common @2.26.0_0
  gnome-common @2.28.0_0 (active)
  gnome-desktop @2.26.3_0
  gnome-desktop @2.30.2_0
  gnome-desktop @2.30.2_1 (active)
  gnome-doc-utils @0.16.1_1
  gnome-doc-utils @0.18.1_1
  gnome-doc-utils @0.20.1_0
  gnome-doc-utils @0.20.2_0
  gnome-doc-utils @0.20.3_0 (active)
  gnome-icon-theme @2.26.0_0
  gnome-icon-theme @2.30.3_0 (active)
  gnome-keyring @2.26.3_0
  gnome-keyring @2.30.3_0
  gnome-keyring @2.30.3_1 (active)
  gnome-mime-data @2.18.0_3 (active)
  gnome-themes @2.26.3.1_0
  gnome-themes @2.30.2_1 (active)
  gnome-vfs @2.24.2_0
  gnome-vfs @2.24.3_0
  gnome-vfs @2.24.3_1
  gnome-vfs @2.24.4_0 (active)
  libgnome @2.26.0_0
  libgnome @2.26.0_1
  libgnome @2.30.0_0 (active)
  libgnome-keyring @2.30.1_1 (active)
  libgnomecanvas @2.26.0_1
  libgnomecanvas @2.30.1_0
  libgnomecanvas @2.30.2_0 (active)
  libgnomecups @0.2.3_1 (active)
  libgnomeprint @2.18.6_0
  libgnomeprint @2.18.7_0
  libgnomeprint @2.18.8_0 (active)
  libgnomeprintui @2.18.4_1
  libgnomeprintui @2.18.4_2
  libgnomeprintui @2.18.5_0
  libgnomeprintui @2.18.6_0 (active)
  libgnomeui @2.24.2_0
  libgnomeui @2.24.2_1
  libgnomeui @2.24.3_0
  libgnomeui @2.24.3_1
  libgnomeui @2.24.4_0 (active)
  py25-gnome @2.26.1_1
  py25-gnome @2.28.1_0 (active)
  py26-gnome @2.28.1_1 (active)

But I cannot get it started as an alternative Window Manager. I guess as it
is not really as I found out earlier. I guess I need to install metacity?
Will go through https://trac.macports.org/wiki/GNOME as soon as I have some
more time..

Thanks again!!
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