XFCE desktop on XQuartz ?

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

I have not run a full WM myself, but a number of ports have notes giving 
so guidelines on how. e.g.

Titan ~ > port notes fvwm2
fvwm2 has the following notes:
   If this is your first install of an alternative WM, these steps
   may be helpful:
       $ mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
       $ cat >~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
       #!/bin/sh
       exec fvwm
       ^D
       $ chmod +x .xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
       $ open /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app

you can probably adapt the above for other WMs.

looking at the above, it also seems they implicitly assumed you have 
configured your X11 server to open in full-screen mode (which you can do 
from the Preferences for it).

good luck

Chris

On 16/04/2019 10:55 am, henry wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> 
> I switched from a Linux-PC to a MacOS Mojave laptop.
> So now I wish to switch from my old Linux Desktop to a brand-new full-screen desktop running on  MacOSX/XQuartz.
> The reason is that I need a REAL unix-like desktop when I am at work (I am an engineer, I work on remote machines via ssh + Xterminal + remote programs written in Motif/QT)
> 
> I successfully installed KDE 4 with Macports, but unfortunately you cannot use it in this way (I confirmed it with the maintainer): the KDE desktop, I mean the KDE Windows Manager, has not been ported to work in XQuartz: you can just open several standalone applications (KTerminal, Konqueror and so on) but only on the Mac Desktop: you can have Apple Mail and KMail in the same window -- I couldn't care less :(
> 
> So I installed XFCE with Macports. The installation finished successfully.
> Do you have any idea if I can start a XFCE desktop on XQuartz ?
> I added:
> exec startxfce
> to my .xinitrc, like I did on Linux, but XQuartz refuses to start ...
> I am afraid it's incompatible, too ...
> 
> 
> Is there anyone using XFCE as a "Linux/Unix-like full screen desktop" on Mojave ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Henry
>