On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Jimmy Tang <jt...@tchpc.tcd.ie> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:57:36AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: >> >> do you run native mac os x apps with dwm or just x11 apps or both? >> > I guess I can say I'm doing the same thing although my "implementation" is different and I'm cheating. I'm running vmware on the mac, and I trimmed down the ubuntu and it's now using dwm so I have a highly specialized development environment running on the vmware and I use macos for everything else.
> i tend to ssh into remote hosts to do work so i often have many xterms > open in different tags which is much easier to navigate then in native > osx with the terminal app. i occassionally launch x11 programs such as > inkscape, xfig, gv, xdvi. > I concur with the first, but I'm barely using any x11 app and as I said I'm cheating. > so in summary yes i run x11 more. i dont see how one can mix osx and x11 > apps with dwm, native osx has click to focus by default, and due to the > lack of keys on a mac keyboard (lacking insert, delete and a few others) > i would imagine some apps keycombos would get clobbered in unpleasant > ways. i tried it once and it wasn't too please, i kept on getting confused > on how to switch between apps (apple key + tab versus alt+j/k) > totally agree with this, my biggest problem is actually when I'm running firefox in both systems and well I mess up with cmd/ctrl for everything, specially since using control on the mac keyboard is so painful. I'm thinking of creating (haven't had the time to do it) a dmw config that is compatible with the way mac apps work (cmd+n = new window, cmd+q = quit app, etc.) I just don't know enough of the mac yet to be sure this will all be worth it. > i would think a native port of dmenu would probably be much useful, > something similar to quicksilver or spotlight with less cruft. > > its just my 2cents on the whole matter. > > jimmy. > > -- > Jimmy Tang > Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, > Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. > http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ | http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/~jtang >