On Nov 18, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > btw - HOW do u run e17 on osx? do you set up osx's x emulation to be "x in a > window" rather than the default "rootless x" emulation?
The X11 emulation on OSX (XQuartz) lets you select in the preferences whether you want to enable the root window or not. The rootless-x emulation still uses the full size of the screen, minus the OSX menu bar. I usually use the non-rooted setting, but it doesn't seem to make much dfference on e17. On OSX, X11 is an app running along side other apps. How it gets launched is another story, but the rootless-x settings are independent of how it's lanched. For reasons I'm not clear about, some X11 window managers (including e16) display a transparent background in non-rooted mode. This means the X11 windows appear with the decoration you expect from the WM, but against the Native OS GUI with other native windows and backgrounds. This is a nice option because X11 windows and native OS windows can be side-by-side in the GUI, sharing the paste buffer, etc. E17 (as well as Gnome and others) has never shown a transparent background in non-rooted mode. It's not a big deal because I can still switch between windows with alt-tab (between X11 and the other app). But that would be a nice feature to implement in e17 for better OSX integration. -Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
