On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Samuel M.Smith wrote: > I know there has been some discussion on this list on how to make > Apple's X11 distribution coexist > with Fink XFree86 X11. But it is somewhat confusing. I found in the > archives a message from James Gibbs that decribes a proceedure where > one installs Apple X11, moves it out of /usr/X11r6, then installs > xfree86 then moves back Apples x11. > > I must say I don't understand what is going on or how they interact > well enough to have confidence that I can apply the approach in general > or tell if I have done something wrong. > > Would someone care to elaborate a little bit on how the two are > supposed to coexist. Will the docs for XFree86 get updated to reflect > this new alternative? > > Thanks, > > Sam > >
Sam: The short answer is "they don't" (coexist that is). The long answer is that if you want, you can use Apples' quartz-wm with fink Xfree86. There have been some posts on this list, and fink-devel on how to do this. It involves copying some files from Apples X11 into your fink installed /usr/X11R6. You can use Pacifist to extract these files from the X11 package. These files exist only in Apple's X11 (such as quartz-wm, Xquartz), so you won't be overwriting any fink installed files. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. www.slickedit.com/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
