Running X11 on something older than OS 10.3 ?

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Chris Cole - 24 Nov 2004 09:26 GMT

Just wondering if it's possible to run the X11 x-server with quartz
window manager on anything older than Mac OS 10.3?

I'm running 10.2.8 on my iBook and am sick of looking at my XDarwin
x-windows interface when I use OpenOffice... =)

Cheers,
Chris

ccole@dart.net.au

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Matt McLeod - 24 Nov 2004 10:16 GMT

>Just wondering if it's possible to run the X11 x-server with quartz
>window manager on anything older than Mac OS 10.3?

They had a release for 10.2 which was a downloadable thing,
not sure where you could get that now.

>I'm running 10.2.8 on my iBook and am sick of looking at my XDarwin
>x-windows interface when I use OpenOffice... =)

You could try OroborOSX with XDarwin. That'll get you a window
manager not entirely unlike quartzwm. Don't think it's been updated
for a while, though.

http://oroborosx.sourceforge.net/

Matt

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Paul remove-the-nospam Day - 24 Nov 2004 14:16 GMT

> >Just wondering if it's possible to run the X11 x-server with quartz
> >window manager on anything older than Mac OS 10.3?
>
> They had a release for 10.2 which was a downloadable thing,
> not sure where you could get that now.

Gone. :) It was a beta for the Apple X11 that was released as part of
10.3.0. As soon as 10.3 was released, it was removed.

PD

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Running X11 on something older than OS 10.3 ?