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You could but then you would still be in the MacOS desktop environment. I think he doesn’t just want to run Linux applications but instead wants the Linux deskt

You could but then you would still be in the MacOS desktop environment. I think he doesn’t just want to run Linux applications but instead wants the Linux desktop environment.

csande17 6y ago
Desktop environments on Linux basically just draw into a full-screen X window, don't they? (And then the programs you run are children of that root window.) I wonder how hard it would be to hack up XQuartz to support that...
- duskwuff 6y ago
  You wouldn't even have to hack it up. There's an option in XQuartz to make it run full-screen, at which point you can run a standard X11 DE. The main issue with XQuartz nowadays is that it doesn't support Retina displays in windowed mode. Everything runs pixel-doubled by default.
  - aodaki 6y ago
    I haven't tried XQuartz at all because I didn't think that kind of software has plenty of resource and is well maintained. Retina support is just one problem caused by lack of maintenance. There are only two options: hack Virgil 3D or hack XQuartz. You cannot "just" run XQuartz and solve problems. And I choose hacking Virgil 3D because it should have less communication overhead and work with Wayland.
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