[Fink-beginners] Have X both ways

[DFort]

Hi fellow newbies and gurus,

I too installed Apple's X11 and found that it had some good features and things I missed. On my wife's iBook I installed Apple X11, but left XDarwin installed--much to my surprise they coexisted just fine. I can't run both at the same time, but I can run XDarwin in full screen mode, quit and then run Apple X11 in rootless. Of course Apple's X11 redraws the screen much faster than OroborOSX running XDarwin rootless.

So, on one my own PowerBook I installed Apple's X11, the SDK, and then the XFree86 installers in this order: XInstall_10.1, XFree86_4.2.0.1-10.2 and XFree86_4.2.1.1. Finally, I put in a fresh new Fink installation and it all seems to work fine. One last trick, I edited my /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file (I think that if you eliminate "private" in the path you will still get to the same place) to the following:
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#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# start some nice programs


exec xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0 -name login
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This is pretty much like the default, except I'm only starting one window and NO window manager--the default window manager is twm and it is very basic. This let's me start up XDarwin in full mode and pick my window manager once XDarwin is running. I'm only using icewm right now, but this should probably work with other window managers and desktop environments.

I'm just a fellow newbie so maybe I'm doing a bad thing here. I just thought I'd share this and hope that a guru will jump in here and offer any advice on having Quartz, Apple X11 and XDarwin all on the same system.

--Dan