[R-SIG-Mac]windowmanagers in R for X11/Darwin

[Jan de Leeuw]

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If you use XTools, the commercial X server from Tenon (www.tenon.com),
then you can choose between rootless and full-screen mode, and in
either mode you can choose the Aqua window manager. Rootless
mode, for those who do not know the terminology, means that you
Aqua desktop remains intact and X11 applications run in windows
onn the Aqua desktop. For instance, you can run an xterm window
and start R in there. Or you can run "R --gui=gnome", which will
also create a window with menus and buttons on your desktop. In
full-screen mode the X server takes over the desktop and you have
to switch between desktops to use either Aqua or X11. Many people
think rootless is nicer, but it can more easily lead to window clutter
and possibly to some confusion (where am I ?).

There is now also a free Aqua window manager than runs with Xfree86,
the open source X server. Here you also have rootless and full-screen
mode, and there are many window managers available. If you are
working in rootless mode on the Aqua desktop, then it makes sense to
use Aqua windows for X11 as well. The OroborusX window manager,
downloadable from http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/oroborosx/,
does this very well. Adrian Umpleby, who is doing this, has plans to
make X clients into double clickable applications under OS X,
which will make the integration of the two environments even more
seamless.

By the way, neither XTools nor XFree86 run unmodified under MacOS X
10.1. XTools will be upgraded as soon as 10.1 is official (next week),
in XDarwin you must set the "Load from file" flag in the keymapping
section of the preferences -- then everything works fine.
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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu
homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw
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           No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai
                    http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/sounds/nomatter.au
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If you use XTools, the commercial X server from Tenon (www.tenon.com),

then you can choose between rootless and full-screen mode, and in

either mode you can choose the Aqua window manager. Rootless

mode, for those who do not know the terminology, means that you

Aqua desktop remains intact and X11 applications run in windows

onn the Aqua desktop. For instance, you can run an xterm window

and start R in there. Or you can run "R --gui=gnome", which will

also create a window with menus and buttons on your desktop. In

full-screen mode the X server takes over the desktop and you have

to switch between desktops to use either Aqua or X11. Many people

think rootless is nicer, but it can more easily lead to window clutter

and possibly to some confusion (where am I ?).


There is now also a free Aqua window manager than runs with Xfree86,

the open source X server. Here you also have rootless and full-screen

mode, and there are many window managers available. If you are

working in rootless mode on the Aqua desktop, then it makes sense to

use Aqua windows for X11 as well. The OroborusX window manager,

downloadable from http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/oroborosx/,

does this very well. Adrian Umpleby, who is doing this, has plans to

make X clients into double clickable applications under OS X,

which will make the integration of the two environments even more

seamless.


By the way, neither XTools nor XFree86 run unmodified under MacOS X

10.1. XTools will be upgraded as soon as 10.1 is official (next week),

in XDarwin you must set the "Load from file" flag in the keymapping

section of the preferences -- then everything works fine.

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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;

US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554

phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email:
deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu

homepage:
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