On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 02:08 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> One of the main features I would probably have to use if I were to > advise OS X on future laptops would be a KDE desktop. Judging by posts > I'm assuming this is possible. > However, I am wondering also, if I were to use KDE with OS X, is Aqua > still running simultaneously? Or is it like on Linux, you boot into 1 > Xserver environment? As Ben noted, yes it is possible to run KDE (or GNOME, which was ported first and is, IMO, a bit more "ready to use" in this form). You have several runmode options: * run X11/KDE in rootless mode, either natively with XDarwwin or with the very nice OroborOSX wrapper application. * run X11/KDE in fullscreen mode in tandem with OSX's Aqua window manager. This has the benefit of allowing you to context switch between a full Mac desktop and a full X11 one. In my opinion, the interface behavior between X11 apps and Aqua apps is inconsistent to the point that in most cases, running them side-by-side in rootless mode can be jarring, though OroborOSX does a pretty good job of getting X11 to blend into Aqua nicely -- but it doesn't use KDE to do it, if that's important to you. * log into the box as ">console", dropping you down to a text-mode BSD login, and once into the command shell there fire up X11/KDE in fullscreen. The benefit here is that, if you *know* you only want an X desktop, then you same some resources by not having to run Aqua [and companion applications -- the Finder, the Dock, etc] at the same time that you're running X11. The drawback here is that X11 performance on Darwin isn't as good as it would be on Linux or pure BSD -- at least so far -- and if you're excluding yourself from running OSX applications then why run OSX at all, espectially when the performance isn't even as good as it is with a pure Linux installation? None of these choices are mutually exclusive. I often switch between OroborOSX and fullscreen XDarwin, depending on whether I want to spend a lot of time running X11 applications (in which case I go for fullscreen) or if I want to mostly go back & forth between X11 and OSX apps (in which case I use OroborOSX). At the extreme, if I know I'm going to be doing nothing but X11 work for a while then I'll take the third option there, but in any case the point is that you have several options and you don't have to pick one to the exclusion of the others. Once the software is all available on your computer, you can choose how you want to use it at your whim. -- Chris Devers ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
