shwetabh said:
I recently purchased a 15" powerbook and since I am used to working on a UNIX environment installed the free X windows on it as well. However, to get applications the only place I could find was fink.org , which is working well but I am having a few problems installing some of the applications. I was wondering if someone else has any XWindows experience on Macs and knows where to get applications for the same. Thanks.
Fink.org as a app called fink-commander(fc).
fc works as apt-get and you can install via fink comander.
(if you want you can still use apt-get in xterm)
Be sure to install the whole fink package (think the newest is 0.7).
Almost all gnu/linux (and other unix sources) apps can be compiled with standard configure and make commands.
You can also install a window manager under x11 also,
i tried first to get kde to work but there was some bugs.
I'm now running Windowmaker (GNU Step) on my powerbook.
There is a nice feature that make x11 either run in fullscreen or in the same desktop as macosx.
Here is macosx and windowmaker on the same desktop:
And here is only windowmaker in x11 environment: