Re: [Fink-users] XDarwin the one and the only?

[Jeremy E. <je...@po...>]

On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 08:13  PM, Brendan Lane Larson wrote:

> This may sound like a strange question for the X Windows gurus of the 
> world, but is XDarwin (with of course its genesis in xfree86) the only 
> open source X Windows Server available for the Darwin and Mac OS X 
> platform?
>
> I'm new to the X world and am trying to learn as much as possible about 
> it. Seems that for Mac OS X, XDarwin is the bomb. It seems that all 
> roads lead to xfree86 when it comes to open source X Windows systems.
>
Basically, XFree86 is about it, although there are commercial, closed 
source, products: Xtools, for one. Why are you interested in 
alternatives?

(The most "mac" like window manager, besides whatever commercial 
offerings have, is probably OroborOSX It uses a modified version of 
XDarwin to interleave Quartz and X11 windows).