Hi Michael, Am Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:30:27 +0000, schrieb Michael Bannister: > I have Apple's X11 installed, the Panther version (I think it uses > 4.3.0?), and want to know if it's worth me removing that and installing > XFree86 4.4.0 ... or will that mess up quartz-wm and slow things down?
Here on my machine a Power Mac G4 Dual 1.42 Ghz Xfree86 4.4.0 neither speeded up nor slowed down the executing of my windowmanager or gnome. Subjective I would say that pure Windowmanagers like enligthenment and twm, blackbox and fluxbox may start up a bit faster but if you are using KDE/gnome start up time is as long or short as before. Quarz-WM won't get messed up. It stays were it is you only have to be carefull when you remove your old X11 that you keep quarz-wm installed. So be sure that you keep a copy of quarz-wm in a safe place, best is on a second partition different from the one you would like to install Xfree 4.4.0, then remove the Apple's X11, that really prevents you from things getting messed up, install Xfree and move back quarz-wm. To remove any X11 equal if it's from Apple or Xfree or whatever company you have to delete: /etc/X11 /usr/X11R6 /Applications/XDarwin or X11.app You know how to use the rm command? Again. Save quarz-wm since it lies in one of the directories mentioned above and you easy oversee this! I know what I am talkin about... Only thing I discovered in Xfree86 up to now is that I am no longer able to use @ and � with a german keyboard in whatever word processor I use. I tried it with OpenOffice.org, Abiword and various editors. Same with some special chars that need a key combo like the � in caf�. In conclusion if you are happy with the X11 you have you should stick to it and rember never change a running system. Sometimes living on the bloody edge of having the newest software installed has it's risks. > Any advice gratefully received Hope this helps. Regards, Eric Hoch -- ## Ansprechpartner Anwenderunterst�tzung, users-Mailingliste ## War unsere Hilfe erfolgreich? Bitte teilen Sie es uns mit. Danke. ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office f�r MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Netikette? http://www.eschkitai.de/openoffice/netikette.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
