At the beggining I was using dwm+xterm on XQuartz, but it was pretty
inneficient and anoying.
then I switched to virtualbox+linux in fullscreen
and now im using iTerm2 which have support for splits and tabs and
keybindings can be configured in a similar way to dwm and fullscreensupport.
So .. I use iTerm2 in fullscreen (like in monocle mode) most of the time
and then cmd-tab to switch to graphical apps. I have not
found any decent tiling (or even non-tiling) window manager for OSX. So
I stay in a fullscreen shell and ssh to the linux vm.
to install dwm in osx, you can just replace the /usr/bin/quartz-wm
binary and kill XQuartz.
I plan to install linux natively at some point, but it's the work's
laptop and i dont have much spare time to do this. (it's a macbookair 11")
On 03/18/11 17:15, Isaac Raway wrote:
So, I had to join this list because someone sent me this thread this
morning. Just so happens I have been doing exactly this...
From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:23:24 +0100
at work I have to use OSX (on a MacBook Pro 13") for various reasons
and wonder if anyone is using dwm in conjunction with OSX?
I have a similar environment, although by choice - I prefer mac
hardware and have liked Mac OS X quite a bit. I used to run Ubuntu on
my MacBook (non-pro) 13" however due to software needs at work I have
switched back to Mac OS X.
Any recommendations you'd like to share?
Oh yes. I use the following setup on two iMacs and a MacBook.
I run Apple's X11.app with the dock set to auto hide. I have found
fullscreen X11 to be a major pain. It might not be as much of an issue
if you never have to use Aqua apps, but I do sometimes so hiding the
dock is good enough for me.
To do builds you obviously need XCode installed.
I am using dwm compiled from the tar ball, works like a champ after
you go through a few setup steps. This is my modified set of
instructions to get dwm working under X11.app:
https://gist.github.com/864399
For general software I have Fink as well as MacPorts installed. If
you're on 10.6 then you will be building form source in Fink. Sort of
a pain but once you build a few large apps (Firefox for instance),
everything else will go pretty well. Older versions of OS X have
binary packages available. I can't comment on the quality of those
builds since I have been doing everything from source.
From fink I obtained and use mc, geany, gedit, and alpine. From
MacPorts I obtained bitlbee and irssi. Built a few other things from
tar balls such as calc. ./configure, make, make install work in about
90% of cases without any problems at all. Otherwise I use Fink mainly
- it seems to have more working packages than MacPorts (ports version
of Firefox is
ancient and only works on PPC for instance).
Don't expect to have a fully functional system for the first day or so
working with Fink. Firefox took about 4 or 6 hours to build on my
various machines, but had no issues. All that time just so I can run a
browser in dwm ;)
Make sure you get the latest Java SDK from Apple's website - there are
some virtual dependencies in Fink that require this to be installed (a
package named something like java-dev is just a stub for the latest
SDK available from Apple).
That's the basics... I am sure I'm forgeting a bunch of stuff, but it
is certainly doable and I actually love the setup - I can still use
Word and Photoshop (no comment on that please, it is part of my job),
but I can stick to a clean tiling window manager and mainly text mode
apps almost all the rest of the time.
If you have any questions let me know, I have been using this setup as
my primary environment for a couple weeks and I'm loving it.
