James Linder wrote: >> "In general, application bugs should be reported to the developers of the >> app (?upstream?), not MacPorts." >> But I think it's safe to say that no-one* is running Xfce on Darwin/XQuartz, >> so this is Terra Incognita... >> >> Anyway, the bug tracker is: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/ >> >> * the jury is still out on "why would anyone want to do that", even though >> it "should" still be possible. >> For most normal users, something like VirtualBSD would probably be a better >> option. Or at least packages. >> >> See http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbsd.html > > Pierre to add to comments above > I?m a great fan of xfce and run that on my many linux machines. > Ideologically I hate apple, but apple make their hardware and software play > together very nicely e.g. bluetooth at boot, e.g. nice sound from their > crappy speakers e.g. heat from core sleep vs (hot) heat from core throttle > e.g. the wireless on my mac mini is perfect under OS X but rather iffy under > any linux distos that I have tried.
Running Darwin only was _always_ painful, and even X11.app isn't included with the OS anymore... So there are not many good options available besides running XQuartz on OS X, for that hardware. > After playing with xfce on the mac mini for a few days the only benefits I > could find were having X11 all the time (subtle reasons) and xfce4-terminal. > iTerm does a pretty equivalent job. Actually neither Terminal nor Midori is a part of the default installation of Xfce any longer... You are free to set any terminal emulator or web browser in the "Preferred Applications" setting. http://www.xfce.org/projects http://www.os-cillation.de/en/open-source-projects/xfce-terminal/ Last release (0.6.3) of this application was done two years ago. It needed some patches to even show up under FreeBSD and Darwin. The main "problem" with xfce4-terminal is that it uses the old VTE library from GNOME Terminal... And just like GTK+ (with gtk3), that is now getting more and more GNOME-specific in later releases: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790186 > So I have to conclude that my mac(s) do exactly what I need, that mac ports > is the glue that turns this into plain sailing and the xfce port is very > interesting, but for me, what?s the point. Clementine (not mac ports) even > plays my oggs. These are the only components remaining in the Xfce core: xfwm4 xfce4-panel xfdesktop xfce4-session xfce4-settings xfce4-appfinder exo garcon xfconf Thunar The rest are all applications (or dependencies/plugins): midori xfce4-terminal mousepad orage ristretto squeeze But I can't really see any reasons to run any of them stand-alone, if not running a X11 desktop... Theoretically you could have them running with the Quartz backend of GTK+/GDK, and not use X at all. Though in that case, most people would prefer a native app ? --anders _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
