On 12/7/20 4:00 PM, joerg van den hoff wrote:
On 07.12.20 21:41, Justin Vallon wrote:
I think that XQuartz is the X-server for MacPorts X11.app. That "full
screen" mode takes over the entire display (hiding all other Mac
applications). I would like to have that X display within a Mac Window.
did not really follow this thread but it seems you just want to run
Xquartz *not* in full screen mode? I believe the alternative is called
"seamless mode". I am using that and the X11 window manager does then
leave the OSX menubar alone and you can switch to different apps with
command-TAB selection etc.
My point is that there are only two options available in X11.app, but
there is a third:
1) Seamless mode where each XWindow gets a MacOS Window.
2) Full-screen mode where X11 takes over the entire display (and does
not show any other Mac apps, Dock, menubar, spaces doesn't work, etc)
3) Windowed mode where X11 opens a single window, which maps to an
XDisplay. Inside that display, you can run a window manager, etc, in a
full X11 environment.
Apps like Microsoft RDP, Mac Remote Desktop, VNC, etc, all have options
for full-screen mode or (single) window mode. X11.app only has
full-screen or seamless, but lacks single-window mode. I believe Exceed
(Windows app) has multi-window, single-window, and full-screen modes.
this works especially good with tiling X11 window managers in my view. I
just keep one of the OSX virtual "Spaces" desktops reserved for the X11
window manager and all X11 apps (including terminal emuators like xterm)
I use (dwm).
I'll try using an alternate wm and spaces as you mentioned.
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-Justin
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