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Installing Enlightenment via MacPorts100 viewsNot being able to tolerate an entire work day spent in Cocoa, I decided I really needed to work in X. So I installed the X11 component onto my work Mac, and downloaded the Fink Project and MacPorts. Then I was able to issue the simple commands:
% cd /opt/local/bin
% ./port install enlightenment
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False Start85 viewsAfter it was installed, I entered the command /opt/local/bin/enlightenment and it attempted to start Enlightenment but ended up giving me an error message. Apparently there is a separate command to actually start enlightenment.
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.xinitrc84 viewsI went back and listened to the badAppleLinuxCast episode 0x00 and found out that I actually needed to add an .xinitrc to my ~ dir. So I fired up vim, and added a one-line ~/.xinitrc
exec /opt/local/bin/enlightenment_start
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Nirvana114 viewsThis time when I start up the X Window System, I am greeted with a beautifully done animation!
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Meager Beginnings95 viewsA few apps in the main menu, but between Fink Project and MacPorts I will get a few more. Most will be a bit out of date, and some will not compile correctly....but....it's better than nothing. Don't let the presence of "Firefox" in that menu fool you; it is mistakenly picking up the Cocoa version of Firefox and will not actually run. I have not yet been successful in getting "firefox-x11" to work on any Mac I've tried it on (except via an ssh -x session from my Linux box). So don't let these screenshots fool you. You do not get the best of both worlds when you get a Mac; you get an only-somewhat functional unix box and a buggy, annoying, bloated cocoa box.
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Nirvana...again!157 viewsGIMP and Inkscape are two of my great loves, so I am always using them. Now I can use them in a fully functional X Window System instead of trying to work around the fact that Cocoa can't talk to X11. Now if I could just find a good drag-and-grop file manager for X11 I'd be set. Also open on this screen are xmms (lower right) and the wysiwyg html editor bluefish. An xterm session is docked.
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KDE to the rescue, as usual81 viewsFirefox-x11 would not compile. Dillo is cool but sometimes something more is required. Enter Konqueror. I added a bunch of KDE apps, and this has made my X11 environment as robust as I need it to be. Customized menu. Konsole insead of xterm. Life is good. In fact, I am posting this pic and comment via X11+Konqueror.
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