Hi,
I have not run a full WM myself, but a number of ports have notes giving
so guidelines on how. e.g.
Titan ~ > port notes fvwm2
fvwm2 has the following notes:
If this is your first install of an alternative WM, these steps
may be helpful:
$ mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
$ cat >~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
#!/bin/sh
exec fvwm
^D
$ chmod +x .xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
$ open /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app
you can probably adapt the above for other WMs.
looking at the above, it also seems they implicitly assumed you have
configured your X11 server to open in full-screen mode (which you can do
from the Preferences for it).
good luck
Chris
On 16/04/2019 10:55 am, henry wrote:
Hi
I switched from a Linux-PC to a MacOS Mojave laptop.
So now I wish to switch from my old Linux Desktop to a brand-new full-screen
desktop running on MacOSX/XQuartz.
The reason is that I need a REAL unix-like desktop when I am at work (I am an
engineer, I work on remote machines via ssh + Xterminal + remote programs
written in Motif/QT)
I successfully installed KDE 4 with Macports, but unfortunately you cannot use
it in this way (I confirmed it with the maintainer): the KDE desktop, I mean
the KDE Windows Manager, has not been ported to work in XQuartz: you can just
open several standalone applications (KTerminal, Konqueror and so on) but only
on the Mac Desktop: you can have Apple Mail and KMail in the same window -- I
couldn't care less :(
So I installed XFCE with Macports. The installation finished successfully.
Do you have any idea if I can start a XFCE desktop on XQuartz ?
I added:
exec startxfce
to my .xinitrc, like I did on Linux, but XQuartz refuses to start ...
I am afraid it's incompatible, too ...
Is there anyone using XFCE as a "Linux/Unix-like full screen desktop" on Mojave
?
Thanks,
Henry
