On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, greg hyde wrote:

> Okay, this raises three question from me. 

Somehow I saw that coming :)

> 1) what's the basic difference between Orobors and Enlightenment? 

Enlightenment is one of many window managers that can be run on top of any
version of X-Windows, no matter what platform X is in turn running on.
That is, you can run it on XDarwin, Linux, Solaris, Cygwin, etc.

OroborOSX [note the spelling] is an all-in-one MacOSX application that
includes a fully functional X-Windows program, and is integrated with the
native Aqua display manager as tightly as possible. OroborOSX uses the
Oroborus [note spelling again] X11 window manager, because it has a theme
that closely resmbles Aqua, but other themese are also available. 

OroborOSX does not, as far as I know, support using other window managers
like for example Enlightenment, but then that's kind of the point: with
OroborOSX, users don't *need* to manually set up separate components
alongside X11, because it's all bundled in a single, double-clickable
application package that, with one eye closed and looking through a
frosted pane of glass, could almost pass for "native" Aqua. 

> 2) I assume files already installed via a previous installation (say, of
> a Fink product) will not be duplicated? 

Not sure, there might be some duplication there, yeah. 

> 3) How do I go about identifying and removing unnecessary files from
> previous installs, now no longer needed (like Enlightenment)? 

Well for lack of a better idea, you might be able to indiscriminately rip
out most of the xfree86-*, gnome-*, etc stuff, install OroborOSX, then
re-install anything that you deleted using "system-xfree86" where you were
previously using xfree86-rootless or something like that. 

> All-in-all, OroborOSX sounds pretty exciting.

I'm pretty sure I told you about this for an earlier question, when you
were asking about which X11/Window setup to go with... :)
 
Maybe you wouldn't have so many questions if you actually read [a] what
people are telling you and [b] what the documentation says?  

;)
 


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