Re: [Fink-users] How do Apple X11 and Fink XFree86 Coexist

2003-02-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
The symlinks are generated by Ben's script for Beta 1. For Beta 2, they are built in Actually, I checked my installation again and libapplexp.1.0.dylib doesn't exist anymore--it was in my backup directory, but it was copied over from my Beta 1 install. I confirmed this by using Pacifist, so

Re: [Fink-users] How do Apple X11 and Fink XFree86 Coexist

2003-02-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 16:35, Samuel M.Smith wrote: Why would anyone want to this? 1) Apple's X11 is rootless only, so this gives the option to run fullscreen. 2) quartz-wm (the Apple window manager) is fast even if cobbled into a standard XFree86 installation, and there are other

Re: [Fink-users] How do Apple X11 and Fink XFree86 Coexist

2003-02-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
Here's what actually is going on: Apple's X11 has some files that aren't found in standard XFree86, such as the window manager. The convoluted process serves to extract just those files, so that they can be placed on top of a standard XFree86 installation (not replacing anything that's there).

Re: [Fink-users] How do Apple X11 and Fink XFree86 Coexist

2003-02-19 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Samuel M.Smith wrote: I know there has been some discussion on this list on how to make Apple's X11 distribution coexist with Fink XFree86 X11. But it is somewhat confusing. I found in the archives a message from James Gibbs that decribes a proceedure where one installs

Re: [Fink-users] How do Apple X11 and Fink XFree86 Coexist

2003-02-19 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le mercredi, 19 fév 2003, à 20:46 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen a écrit : As an aside, one thing that I found out is that James G's instructions were appropriate for Beta0.1, but more files needed to be moved for Beta0.2 . If you're interested I'll elaborate. I'm interesting if you don't

Re: [Fink-users] How do Apple X11 and Fink XFree86 Coexist

2003-02-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
It's not too different. Quoting the message: 1 - (same) sudo sudo dpkg -r --force-depends xfree86-rootless-threaded=20 xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs xfree86-base-threaded=20 xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs 2 - (same) Install X11User,

Re: [Fink-users] How do Apple X11 and Fink XFree86 Coexist

2003-02-19 Thread Samuel M . Smith
Why would anyone want to this? 1) Apple's X11 is rootless only, so this gives the option to run fullscreen. 2) quartz-wm (the Apple window manager) is fast even if cobbled into a standard XFree86 installation, and there are other nice features, too. 3) If you build packages from source against

Re: [Fink-users] How do Apple X11 and Fink XFree86 Coexist

2003-02-19 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le mercredi, 19 fév 2003, à 22:25 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen a écrit : I redo the same also, but then when I inspect the differences both bak and non bak folder I saw that the files where the same except for applexp.1.dylib which I copied, the other ones were only symbolic links to this