On 12May2012 20:52, spooky1...@gmail.com <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote: | But all of these things aren't so complicated. The reason for my | original post in this thread was to see if anything in OS X might | interfere with using Mutt. I didn't expect that there would be, | but I'd hate to try to pull up an xterm and find it missing. :-) | (I'm still a command-line guy...reason for running X? Multiple | x-terms, multiple desktops, xbiff, and my freeware Tcl/Tk hurricane | tracking program, JStrack[1]).
I'm very much a command line guy. You will want to get the latest X11 server then: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki You need to reinstall it after MacOSX updates because they unconfigure it, then relogin (to reload it as the default X11 - happens at Mac desktop login time). It will share cut/paste happily with the MacOSX apps. I run it in shared mode (X11 windows are top level Mac desktop windows like other apps, though the app is X11 - switching to X11 raises _all_ the X11 windows over the other app windows, and using XQuartz as the window manager - looks just like any other MacOSX window decoration.) I do most of my work in MacOSX iTerm2 windows rather than X11 mode (I use rxvt-unicode when in X11 if I need an X11 terminal). I use the MacOSX "spaces" facility for multiple desktops (it only goes up to 4x4, and I miss my infinite desktops setup I use under FVWM). I do turn off the "when switching to an app, switch to a desktop with its window" setting in the spaces prefs. It has a togglable full screen mode too; only X11 visible, as though it is the whole desktop. Then you'd run a more native X11 window manager. My GF runs (the MacOSX stock X11) in largely shared mode - X11 windows (mostly aterms) on the Mac Desktop but using ICEWM for the window manager. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Uh, this is only temporary...unless it works. - Red Green
