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OroborOSX: XDarwin Aqua-Like Window Manager

Posted by timothy on from the eyes-bulge-out-of-your-head dept.

UnanimousCoward writes: "I've just downloaded OroborOSX, "A modified Oroborus-based X11 window manager for use with XFree86 and XDarwin on Mac OS X." It's truly a wm worthy of standing side-by-side with Aqua in rootless mode. Here are some screenshots from Jonathan Tyzack (I'm too lazy to create my own, but my experience is the same). Using MacGimp under OroborOSX is awesome ..." The original Oroborus looks interesting as well; the original author has discontinued work on Oroborus, but it looks like the code has found a nice new application.

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  1. Note: for OSX and Darwin only by soboroff · · Score: 5, Informative

    Note that you will need to be running OSX (or Darwin?) to build or run this; it is a Carbon app. This isn't immediately obvious from the web page... I just assumed they hadn't tried it on anything but OSX.

    Ah, well, back to E...

  2. Re:why not use the original? by OwnedByTwoCats · · Score: 5, Informative
    OroborOSX is an X Windows server implementation for MacOS X/Darwin, that presents applications for the X Windows System in a way that fans of Apple's Aqua user interface would find appealing.


    The original MacOS X interface doesn't work for X Windows applications "out of the box".