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Title: Convert My Pdaxii13 To Near Osx Like
Post by: D4rk 4p113 on January 08, 2007, 06:14:04 pm

Hello all

I'm new in pdaxrom and zaurus, but I want to convert my pdaxrom to have a appearence like a OSX

(bar on top and wallpaper etc) if someone cam help and patience to explain step by step for a noob i'll thankfull

Cheers

Title: Convert My Pdaxii13 To Near Osx Like
Post by: macwiz on January 16, 2007, 06:53:43 pm

Have you searched the forum for the different window managers available, for instance:

xfce4
rox
e17
icewm
fluxbox

and so on.

Whatever kudos there might be in having a look n feel like OSX, for me it is important to have something that works just as well. So far I have found xfce4 combined with rox is really more intuitive and configurable than anything else I've used, quite like the Finder on the Mac. There is a howto here:

http://users.telenet.be/zaurususer/Chero/ (http://users.telenet.be/zaurususer/Chero/)

(Also look for the thread on xfce4 finetuning... it's getting a bit long now, but which bits are relevant to you will depend on which Z you have and which rom you are using).

If you try out different window managers remember to back up your .xinitrc file so that if things go pear shaped you can restore the default back again.

Remember to have fun. You're doing stuff you can't do on a Windows mobile device.

Title: Convert My Pdaxii13 To Near Osx Like
Post by: Capn_Fish on January 16, 2007, 10:20:18 pm

Seems like ROX and Xfce work well to make an OSX look.

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8170&st=15 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8170&st=15)

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Title: Convert My Pdaxii13 To Near Osx Like
Post by: Chero on January 17, 2007, 02:28:28 am

Maybe we could add this to xfce :

mac menu bar for xfce (and gnome) (http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Mac_Menubar_for_GNOME_and_Xfce)

How osx can it be ??  

Chero.

Title: Convert My Pdaxii13 To Near Osx Like
Post by: BarryW on January 17, 2007, 02:17:21 pm

Well if you really wanted it to be more osX like, you'd need to install bsd.