You'll still have to set up a .xinitrc (safer than editing /usr/X11R6/etc/init/xintrc) to run KDE, or any other window manager besides twm; an exception is OroborOSX (oroborosx.sf.net) which uses a private configuration setup.
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:01, Richard Nagle wrote: > without messing up the mac side, > should I download the KDE desktop, > via fink commander, and install that to run kde > instead of using this min xwindow (twn) > > that would be a better choice ? instead of messing around with .config > files. > > -Rick > > > > On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 12:28 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > 1) What you get when you start X11 is set up in a configuration file. > > Right now the information is being read from > > /usr/X11R6/etc/xinit/xinitrc > > . > > > > You should copy this file to your home directory and rename your copy > > to > > .xinitrc and then modify it as needed. > > > > 2) You are probably running the default window manager (twm). Twm is > > pretty minimal, and doesn't work well in rootless mode. If you are > > running in fullscreen mode, then you can click on the background to get > > the menu for twm--basically you can run an xterm but not much else. > > If > > you control-click on an xterm it will give you a menu. However, if you > > kill the one named login it will close your X11 session, because it is > > set > > up to do so in xinitrc. > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
