Re: X11

Thanks Brian,

that hit the spot. I was under the impression I would need to install a
"rpm installer program" to be able to use rpm's.
Hopefully this will appear in thread. I haven't figured out the mechanism
to ensure that, if someone has tips please tell me. :]

On a previous install with a different video card (128MB, AGP8) I was
accustomed to seeing the apple logo on startup until I passed the -v
argument, but did not try X11 with this card. That card has since died.
This time I had not seen the logo at all and found when I installed X11 it
would not run. This was using a moderately old PCI card (16MB Banshee). I
swapped to another old video card (3D Stealth), got a logo on startup and
started X11 no problems.
I wonder if there is a connection between video compatibility and the
apple logo which may also correlate to X11 working.

Anyway, I have played with twm for an hour and feel like trying to get a
more featured window manager and was hoping I could get some
advice/suggestions.

I have had a look at the list of wm's at
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ports/?by=cat&substr=x11-wm
and then cross referenced that with what people seem to like at
lists.apple.com and here. A few crop up regularly and having been to the
homepages I need a little clarification to see if I can proceed.

I have never built from source, can't use the CVS (no network under OD)
know very little about dependencies and libraries. I guess I need to find
something that is either an rpm with everything ready to go (is that the
purpose of an rpm?) or a binary with good documentation.

Any advice on a good choice and how to install it would be great.
I am a novice at anything other than MS so please write slowly. :]

Best Wishes,
David Walker

>> question on installing X11.
>> I have found a few pages that describe the process:
>> >        ftp http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/7.2.1/X11-x86.tar.bz2
cd /
>> >        tar -jxpf {path_to}/X11-x86.tar.bz2
>
> if you're using opendarwin and not some other variant of darwin, then
you'd
> probably be better off with the RPM at
> http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/7.2.
> 1/
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