On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 07:33 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > Pray tell, what are you talking about?
Most Unix systems use a windowing system called X-windows. The most common implementation is called X11R6 or just X11, short for X-windows version 11 release 6. Apple has released beta software to view X-windows under Mac OS X. This gets very confusing when you're around Unix people. For them X is "ex" and for us X is 10. X11 is very modular. You can change its look and feel by running different window managers and widget sets. The previous version of Apple's beta introduced a window manager called quartz-wm, which made the the X-windows look like our beloved Aqua windows. This latest version defaulted to a different, more primitive, window manager called twm. Jerry's note was about how to change the default window manager back to quartz-wm. You don't need to worry about this, unless you're planning to run some X-windows programs, and there are lots of them out there. Apple's X11 makes it really easy to bring hard core Unix and Linux programs over to the Mac. Programs like Open Office, The Gimp, Emacs and Matlab run on Mac OS X under X11. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
