chemistry_geek
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I recently purchased Mac GIMP from http://www.macgimp.com for $20.00. The installation went smoothly until the optimization process, where it crashed. Rebooting and following the directions sure enough gave me access to the GIMP....SWEET! I am happy! I can play with my photos, screw around with drawings, etc...without using $600.00 Adobe Photoshop. The installer automatically installs X Windows, The GIMP, and documentation. I can say that for a die hard Mac user new to unix, and with a 56K internet connection, the $20.00 was well spent for a painless installation as opposed to downloading all those files and ATTEMPTING to install everything correctly with f@*%ing-up the system in the process.
Attached is my screenshot showing GIMP running in rootless mode. In order to use X Windows along side Aqua Windows, you type "startx -- -rootless" at the command prompt and Mac GIMP starts up. The default setting is for X Windows to run in its own environment, much like classic does, however, all you see is the X Windows interface if you double click on its icon. To switch back to the Aqua interface / environment, you type Option-Command-A. This TOO COOL. X Windows is a little snappier, actually, a lot snappier than Aqua's interface. Eh hem, Apple take note of this! - Make Quartz a user-selectable option. This is just like how it was running GIMP in LinuxPPC 2000, though a little slower in Mac OS X.
The picture you see being edited in the window is a picture I took in Lake Tahoe a few years back.
chemistry_geek
Blue & White 400MHz G3, 640MB RAM, 2930 Adaptec SCSI Card, 12.1GB UltraATA (Mac OS 9.1), 18GB UltraSCSI (Mac OS X 10.0.4, Build 4Q12), 100MB ZIP, LaCie SCSI CD-RW (6X-4X-16X), Rage 128 OEM video card, Hewlett Packard DeskJet 970Cxi printer with duplexer, Hewlett Packard 5300C ScanJet scanner.
Attached is my screenshot showing GIMP running in rootless mode. In order to use X Windows along side Aqua Windows, you type "startx -- -rootless" at the command prompt and Mac GIMP starts up. The default setting is for X Windows to run in its own environment, much like classic does, however, all you see is the X Windows interface if you double click on its icon. To switch back to the Aqua interface / environment, you type Option-Command-A. This TOO COOL. X Windows is a little snappier, actually, a lot snappier than Aqua's interface. Eh hem, Apple take note of this! - Make Quartz a user-selectable option. This is just like how it was running GIMP in LinuxPPC 2000, though a little slower in Mac OS X.
The picture you see being edited in the window is a picture I took in Lake Tahoe a few years back.
chemistry_geek
Blue & White 400MHz G3, 640MB RAM, 2930 Adaptec SCSI Card, 12.1GB UltraATA (Mac OS 9.1), 18GB UltraSCSI (Mac OS X 10.0.4, Build 4Q12), 100MB ZIP, LaCie SCSI CD-RW (6X-4X-16X), Rage 128 OEM video card, Hewlett Packard DeskJet 970Cxi printer with duplexer, Hewlett Packard 5300C ScanJet scanner.
