[P1] OS X + X11

[Zachary Heaton]

On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 14:07 Canada/Eastern, Romain Kang wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:56:43PM -0500, Charles Martin wrote:
>> OTOH, bringing over their own version of X11 -- now *that's* huge!!
>
> Slight typo.  I found the page under
> 	http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/
>
>> The OpenOffice final beta is just up today, and that's just the
>> beginning. Average (aka "normal") users of Mac OS X probably shouldn't
>> bother with X11 at all, but for those of a geeky bent ... woo hoo!
>
> Woo hoo, indeed.  If they really deliver, I might give up multibooting
> OS X and PPC Linux, and go OS X full time.  I was using mostly Linux
> because Sawfish multiple workspaces + xterm under X11 is much more
> powerful for the kind of stuff I do.
>
> I'll have to see how this works when I get my "new" 700 MHz iBook.
> I specifically got an old model because the Radeon Mobility 7500
> doesn't sleep properly under Linux, and a laptop that can't sleep
> is pretty lame...
>
> Romain Kang                             Disclaimer: I speak for myself 
> alone,
> romain at kzsu.stanford.edu                except when indicated 
> otherwise.

On a related note:  Has anyone had difficulty in getting the 
"Applications" menu to actually launch anything?  I have tried 
configuring it to launch the GIMP (command "gimp"), GNUCash (command 
"gnucash"), and Dia (command "dia").  The confusing thing is that I can 
launch all of these from XTerm without any issues.  Perhaps this is why 
this is a beta...

Regards,
Zach Heaton