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Old 05-27-2003, 01:25 PM   #1
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Question kde and apple's window manager

i am farily new to the whole KDE thing but i have noticed that some screenshots of the windows (on other sites) do not show the red yellow and green buttons that are common now in os X. i want to go back to the kde title bar at the top i think is still an X but it is square. basically i dont want to use apple's window manager. but i am not sure how to do this.
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Old 05-27-2003, 02:07 PM   #2
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troypolla,

Write a ~/.xinitrc file with:
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source /sw/bin/init.sh

/sw/bin/startkde /sw/var/log/kde.log 2>&1
Then, start Apple's X11.
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Old 05-27-2003, 02:40 PM   #3
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i tried

kde worked to begin with. i probably was not very clear. kde runs fine but i dont want the red, yellow, and green buttons or the apple title bar at the top of any windows. this was the same .xinitrc file i had.
thanks for any help
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Old 05-27-2003, 10:23 PM   #4
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Quote:
troypolla wrote:
basically i dont want to use apple's window manager

Well, the way above is not using the quartz-wm.

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...or the apple title bar at the top of any windows

What you probably want is to use X11 in "fullscreen mode", eliminating the aqua desktop altogether. But, it can't be done with Apple's X11 at the moment as it only supports 'rootless mode'.

It works with XDarwin which supports fullscreen mode.
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Old 05-28-2003, 06:07 AM   #5
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works now

i had to reinstall x11 because i used some x11 extension that screwed it up but the .xinitrc file you gave now works great. thanks for the help.
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