How does one do this?

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Jasoco

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http://www.jasoco.com/lookhere/rno/osxnext.jpg

In the bottom left corner is what looks to be a bit of the NeXT Operating System. I suppose it has been recompiled. And runs via the red X in the Dock. As is my understanding.

How would one go about getting this ability? And can they get it without having to have working Dev Tools? Cause I ain't gonna spend a day downloading the Dev Tools just because 10.0 ones won't work with 10.1.

Just wonderin'.
 
Ok, I now have XFree86 and a red X in my Dock. And it works fine. But I have a couple silly problems...

First up, when I launch the X either full screen or Rootless within OS X (Which is what I want to do) three ugly colored Terminal windows and a clock open. I can not figure out how to close them. I do not want them.

Second, I downloaded WindowMaker and all I get is source code. Does anyone have a compiled version? I do NOT have the Dev tools since Apple felt it right to leave them out of the Free X.1 upgrade package. And if I am correct, they're probably a huge download and I only have 56k and all I want to compile is one small little program.

And third of all, even if I did have the Dev tools I wouldn't know how to compile the program. I wouldn't know what the heck to start with.

Four... What other programs are out there that I can use the "X" with?
 
I just installed XDarwin myself. I'd definitely suggest downloading OroborOSX. It is a window manager but it has a couple of niceties. For one, you can have a list of apps that you want to start when you launch XDarwin (by launching OroborOSX). Orobox also makes the windows look Aquaish and it lets you add items to a "launch" menu which is nice for X11 apps.

after this. I would download fink which is a command line app which will lists, downloads, compiles and installs apps. I installed GIMP and other apps using. I've also installed a large number of packages with fink (over 50 so far), including gnome and qt. I'm hoping to get the entire Gnome Office installed and running with fink. Fink makes this entirely too easy.

I'm also planning to install Mplayer which plays RealAudio (maybe video, I don't know yet) stuff (anything to keep me out of Classic =>).

Gnumeric and AbiWord will also help me in dealing with Bill's stuff (Excel and Word respectively).

There's a lot of cool software in fink.

You can find OroborOSX here: http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/ne...mac&mode=Quick&OS_Filter=MacOSX&search=orobor

fink can be found here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/

lastly, don't forget the instructions for making fink use unstable packages (which will increase the number of software titles fink knows about): http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable

After you install fink, open a terminal and type fink --help to get started.

Personally, I'm having a crap-full of fun with XDarwin. :D
 
It may not have been the proper steps ... but I installed XonX ... and updated my fink ... then choose to install windowmaker via Fink 0.3.2a .... started up X and it's still the windows 3.11 looking terminals and clock ...

So just what are the steps to get X to use a different window manager ?
 
edit your '.xinitrc' file in your home directory

for windowmaker, just add the line 'exec wmaker', and possibly 'PATH="$PATH:/sw/bin" if you installed via fink before it.
 
to exit a terminal:
type:
Code: 
exit

If you exit your window manager like it asks (NOT by quitting X11, but rather by a method depected by your respective window manager), it should save the list of apps you had open and open them next time.

BTW, Afterstep is also very next-ish. I have it running and I think its sooo cool. There's a thread on this board somewhere where some people helped me compile it. So if you want to download the developer tools (WELL worth it, and btw I downloaded them at 1.1k/sec the day they came out caus apple's servers were so swamped), try it out. I may post a screen shot when I get back to my osx box.
 
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