X Windows + Darwin

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X Windows + Darwin

I have a question that I have been trying to figure out: If you have pure Darwin (no MacOS X, which I have), how do you install the X Windows system? I tried installing fink, then running it with startx, but then I found out that when you run startx, it gives you a gui asking for rootless or fullscreen, so it can only work on Mac OS X. So how do I on a pure UNIX machine install/use X Windows without Mac OS X? Any help, as always very much Appriciated!

-Craig

MacMini G4 1.25 GHz 512 RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.2), Mac OS X (10.3.9) Dual-Boot

Posted on Dec 22, 2005 9:51 AM

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Craig Cabrey Author

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Dec 22, 2005 10:42 AM in response to Karl Zimmerman

I read where it sayed that you can run it from a pure darwin machine without a start up screen, but thats not the truth at all. As a test, I went to the terminal and typed startx, and see if a dialog would come up asking for rootless or full mode, and it did. That's why I can't use X Windows on a pure-darwin machine. If I could, I would do a screenshot of me typing in startx, then its runs, then you see the dialog come up. Don't know (?) Thanks for your help!
-Craig

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Craig Cabrey Author

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Dec 22, 2005 4:30 PM in response to David Fass

I didn't think of that, I thought that just installing from fink would literally compile from source, but that's really XDarwin modified source. Now, after I download all 7 of the archives, do I expand them into one directory? Thanks a lot for your help! (I gave you a helpful!)

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Craig Cabrey Author

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Dec 23, 2005 10:23 AM in response to Craig Cabrey

I again, I'm still wondering if I extract all the sources into one directory or just leave them. I am getting the sources from here:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R6.7.0/src/
All 7 of them. I would be great if you could direct me from there!
Thanks again!
-Craig

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Finlay

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Dec 23, 2005 3:39 PM in response to Craig Cabrey

What release of Darwin are you running?

If you're on OpenDarwin 7.2.1, there are RPMs of X11 available.

Anyway, you should be able to build it using the normal build process. This is well documented. Have you tried reading the X.Org manual?

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Answer 5

Dec 22, 2005 10:04 AM in response to Craig Cabrey

Did you find this document? It seems to cover the differences in installing X11 on Darwin vs. OS X pretty well...

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Answer 6

Dec 22, 2005 12:44 PM in response to Craig Cabrey

Have you tried building it from its source?
the xfree86 source not the old XDarwin source.

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