Ticket Options

Question Details

TICKET ARCHIVE -> KDE on tiger 10.4.5

pepe159 - Apr 18, 2006 - 7:58 am

Hi,

I want to install a graphical interface for my Darwin, spacially KDE, I heard about XDarwin
What do I have to do?
Is it possible to have Mac OS and XDarwin, like you have in common pcs with linux and windows?
I am a newbie on this. I have a PBG4 (not intel)

Thanks in advance,
Hugo

ericl - Apr 19, 2006 - 10:25 am

I am not sure what you want:

(1) Do you want to run Xwindows applications on your Mac? (Easy)

(2) Do you want to run an entirely different Windowing environment on you Mac? (Somewhere between difficult & impossible)

If your answer is #2, this forum is the wrong place for this

Thanks, Eric

pepe159 - Apr 19, 2006 - 2:13 pm

Dear Eric

I want to run Xwindows applications on my Mac, option 1
Can you explain me how to do?

thanks,
Hugo

ericl - Apr 19, 2006 - 3:27 pm

That's great.

This is a rather lengthy subject. www.apple.com has some fair articles on their support site on doing this.

MacOS 10.3 & newer comes with the Xwin system installed.

When you run Xwin applications, your Mac will always be the "Display Server".

The applications can run locally on your Mac, or they may run on a remote host & display on your Mac & take keyboard & mouse input from your Mac.

If you run Xwin applications remotely, it is a fairly complex set-up

If you just want to run then locally, then install the application, start an xwin shell on the Mac, & type the name of the application into the xwin shell. FYI, this is all CLI until your xwin application starts.

See ya, Eric

pepe159 - Apr 20, 2006 - 7:52 am

Dear eric,

Ok thanks a lot. If I understood well I type simply 'xwin' on a xterm or terminal and the graphical interface of Darwin appears? and once this is running I type the application like in linux ?

with best regards,

Hugo

ericl - Apr 20, 2006 - 3:12 pm

Hi Hugo. Your latest reply says you want to be sitting on a computer & have a Darwin desktop from a remote Mac display on the computer you are sitting at?

If this is true, this is different than running a Xwin application on a Mac.

Darwin is not a networked window system like the other UNIX systems are.

So, in review, you can display a UNIX Xwin program on your Mac, but you cannot display a Mac session on UNIX.

Good luck, Eric