Thanks Bill,

I think I'll go with fink's XFree86 since it doesn't require rebuilding
packages and it's somewhat newer than apple's. I'm interested in the
script you referenced and will check it out.

Thanks to all who responded,
Robert

William Scott wrote:
>  > there may not be a compelling reason any longer to not
>  > use apple's X11.
> 
> I wasn't aware that there ever was one.
> 
> If you need graphics speed, like for molecular graphics software (eg:  
> fink's coot or pymol packages), Apple's X11 is vastly superior.
> 
> In the rare instances I need some other window manager, I run it  
> nested using this shell script I hacked together:
> 
> http://xanana.ucsc.edu/Library/init/zsh/local-functions/darwin/startwm
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bill Scott


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