Okay, here goes.
Download the X11 application from Apple (
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/download/ ) and let the installer do
what it does. X11 will be installed as an application in the
Applications folder.
Double click on the X11 icon. This will get X11 up and running. Several
windows will open up, one will be a little clock on the right hand side
of the "main" screen, as well as two terminal windows.
At this point you are really running X-windows, and you can type
commands into an active terminal window and have them run. Click on any
window to make it the active terminal. Try some of the familiar
commands that you already know to see that they work just like they do
in OS-X (oh, say try 'top', 'ls', 'cd' -- any of those commands will
work as you know already.
Okay gang, I will try to get together a few ideas for presenting either
here or at some future date for using some X11 apps.
How many of you are interested in something like Open Office? Gimp? or
????
Anyone of you many Unix users interested in helping?
Jerry
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 07:48 PM, Allen Prunty wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:13 AM, Anne Cartwright wrote:
>
>> Is there by chance a LCS meeting program in this? In other words, is
>> X11 something that a few of us non-geek Mac users might enjoy
>> attempting?
>>
>> What's required (besides knowledge) to run X-windows programs. Would
>> any of those Unix and Linux programs which can be run on the Mac
>> (Open Office, The Gimp, Emacs and Matlab) be of interest or use to
>> the likes of us?
>
> I have used linux x-windows before... I would be happy if someone
> would just tell me WHAT to type in the x11 command line to bring up
> x-windows or what to download to get it to run.
>
> I have tried from the commandline to type quartz-wm and it says a
> window manager is already running.
>
> HELP!
>
> Allen
>
>
>
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