Hello Thank you for the very fast support.
I followed Chris Jones advice and created the .xinitrc.d directory. Still no result (forever loop of XQuartz). After some investigation, I found out that I had an invalid $PATH (did not contain /opt/local/bin) and no .bashrc file (or .bash_profile) at all. So I added the "export PATH=... ..." in the 99-vm.sh file, and immediately xfce started ! I will perform some research on Google to confirm if I need (or not) a .bashrc and what it should contain. For now, the simple export of PATH worked ! I am attaching a screenshot [*] of my desktop ... Guess if it's a standard linux desktop or it's a Mojave XQuartz application !!! [*] I don't know if the mailing list blocks the images. Thanks again, Regards. Henry On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, at 15:03, Chris Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I have not run a full WM myself, but a number of ports have notes giving > so guidelines on how. e.g. > > Titan ~ > port notes fvwm2 > fvwm2 has the following notes: > If this is your first install of an alternative WM, these steps > may be helpful: > $ mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d > $ cat >~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh > #!/bin/sh > exec fvwm > ^D > $ chmod +x .xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh > $ open /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app > > you can probably adapt the above for other WMs. > > looking at the above, it also seems they implicitly assumed you have > configured your X11 server to open in full-screen mode (which you can do > from the Preferences for it). > > good luck > > Chris > > On 16/04/2019 10:55 am, henry wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > I switched from a Linux-PC to a MacOS Mojave laptop. > > So now I wish to switch from my old Linux Desktop to a brand-new > > full-screen desktop running on MacOSX/XQuartz. > > The reason is that I need a REAL unix-like desktop when I am at work (I am > > an engineer, I work on remote machines via ssh + Xterminal + remote > > programs written in Motif/QT) > > > > I successfully installed KDE 4 with Macports, but unfortunately you cannot > > use it in this way (I confirmed it with the maintainer): the KDE desktop, I > > mean the KDE Windows Manager, has not been ported to work in XQuartz: you > > can just open several standalone applications (KTerminal, Konqueror and so > > on) but only on the Mac Desktop: you can have Apple Mail and KMail in the > > same window -- I couldn't care less :( > > > > So I installed XFCE with Macports. The installation finished successfully. > > Do you have any idea if I can start a XFCE desktop on XQuartz ? > > I added: > > exec startxfce > > to my .xinitrc, like I did on Linux, but XQuartz refuses to start ... > > I am afraid it's incompatible, too ... > > > > > > Is there anyone using XFCE as a "Linux/Unix-like full screen desktop" on > > Mojave ? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Henry > > >
