An update to my observation: In the second scenario, I could not log out of Gnome2 so I had to quit X11.app to terminate Gnome2. However, that did not terminate the process. So, when I looked into Process Viewer, metacity, gnome-session and many gnome related programs were still listed as "Running". Even worse, when I try to startup X11.app again after quitting as described above, the program won't start (probably due to Gnome2 and metacity still running). It starts again after force quitting those processes.
So, I would not recommand run Gnome2 without running quartz-wm. Cheers, Chia On 2/14/03 3:07 PM, "Chia Hung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Finksters, > > I have Gnome2 and MetaCity installed on my machine (TiPB 550). I was > using the X11 installed via Fink before. The setup ran pretty well on my > machine but the speed of window redraw (during size change) was very slow. > > I finally decided to give Apple's X11 a chance so I bit the bullet and > took the plunge this morning. Well, my initial impression is that, even with > my somewhat of a slow machine, having the Quartz rendering running in the > system, it is certainly a big improvement. > > I played around with 2 settings in my ".xinitrc" file and had the > following to report: > > First scenario, running Apple's quartz-wm and Gnome2. The following is > part of my ".xinitrc" file (at the end of the file): > >> # start some nice programs >> >> /usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm & >> >> exec gnome-session > > My Gnome2 was originally setup to run MetaCity as window manager. However, > when I set to use quartz-wm as the window manager, it neglected MetaCity and > used quartz-wm as the window manager. With this setup, the Gnome2 top menu > bar is located beneath the X11 menu bar. This is how running Xdarwin in the > rootless mode look like too. > > Second scenario, running just Gnome2. The following is the corresponding > part of my ".xinitrc" file: > >> # start some nice programs >> >> exec gnome-session > > In this instance, MetaCity runs as the window manager. However, the Gnome > top menu bar is hidden underneath the X11 menu bar. > > So, there you have it. My limited experience so far is that Apple's X11 > has significant graphic improvement over the standard Fink installed X11. I > resisted quite a bit from installing Apple's X11 for I feel that the Fink > group worked so hard to get xfree86 ported to Darwin and I am now abandoning > it...sorry! > > For those who are waiting to see if Gnome2 works with Apple's X11, my > advice is...Go ahead. However, you will need to use quartz-wm as your window > manager. > > On a side note, I also used Theme Changer to modify my OS X graphical > interface from Aqua to other themes. The theme did carry over to quartz-wm. > In addition, one can setup themes (limited) with Nautilus. Nautilus comes > with Gnome2. What I had, then, was a combination of changed OS X theme plus > Nautilus theme. So at this point, if you want different themes in quartz-wm, > you will also need to change your OS X setup. Now, if we can modify > quartz-wm theme... > > Hope that this report helps you on your decision making. > > Chia > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte > are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE > Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
