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would X11 for Mac OS and then an i3 installation running under that be any good? I imagine only useful for X11 applications. http://www.xquartz.org/ http://www
by keithpeter 11y ago
would X11 for Mac OS and then an i3 installation running under that be any good? I imagine only useful for X11 applications.
http://www.xquartz.org/ http://www.xquartz.org/
http://www.nrtm.org/index.php/2011/01/28/tiling-window-manager-on-the-mac/ http://www.nrtm.org/index.php/2011/01/28/tiling-window-manag... (2013 so ancient)
I've not used MacOS since around 2011/12 so take this with a pinch of salt.
- peatmoss 11y agoNo, trying to use OSX seriously with X11 is a pain. In principle, X11 should load up like any other full screen app. And, in practice it does. Keybindings are a bit annoying to coordinate between OSX's GUI and X11, but that's sort of livable. The real pain is in managing the software that you'd want to run on OSX in X11. The best I've found is NetBSD's pkgsrc, but it's not great on OSX. Even if you are okay building from source, you'll find stuff breaks pretty often. Homebrew isn't really geared toward providing X11 versions of apps, so you can forget that. All in all, much easier to use Ubuntu or FreeBSD and get the benefit of a well-integrated package manager and an X11 environment that isn't a step child.