[X-Newbies] X11 on MacBook.

[Brian Durant]

My daughter just got a MacBook a few days ago and I thought that I
would install X11 and Fink on her computer. To my surprise, there have
been some changes since I installed ditto on my G5 single (PowerMac
9.1). Firstly, I noticed that XDarwin is installed rather than a
vanilla X11, so I decided to play it cautiously and install Fink and
Gedit to see how that would work. After install, which seemed to be a
little on the slow side, I fired up Gedit and to my suprise, I got a
whole bunch of greenish windows (including one with an analog clock!)
and Gedit. Gedit seems to work fine, but I am wondering where all of
these windows came from. Is this part of what Fink installs with the
various libs that Gedit needs or is this something with XDarwin? How
do you manage or get rid of all of these windows? Does Fink now need a
window manager to run with the installed packages or is this some sort
of XDarwin quirk?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Brian