On 10/16/06, Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> From: Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Oct 16, 2006 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Posting to Fink problems.
> To: Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> OK, thanks. Here is my e-mail to the list:
>
> X11 on MacBook.
>
> My daughter just got a MacBook a few days ago and I thought that I
> would install X11 and Fink on her computer. To my surprise, there
> have been some changes since I installed ditto on my G5 single.
> Firstly, I noticed that XDarwin is installed rather than a vanilla
> X11, so I decided to play it cautiously and install Fink and Gedit to
> see how that would work. After install, which seemed to be a little
> on the slow side, I fired up Gedit and to my suprise, I got a whole
> bunch of greenish windows (including one with an analog clock!) and
> Gedit. Gedit seems to work fine, but I am wondering where all of
> these windows came from. Is this part of what Fink installs with the
> various libs that Gedit needs or is this something with XDarwin? How
> do you manage or get rid of all of these windows? Does Fink now need
> a window manager to run with the installed packages or is this some
> sort of XDarwin quirk?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>

They are part of the default initialization for XFree86 or Xorg (one
of which presumably provided the XDarwin server).

You probably would want to customize things to your liking:


http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php#xinitrc
-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter (still)

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