The damned X11 problem

So finally I catch the reason why I cannot install windowmaker on my Mac successfully. The Fink I once installed was a beta version and not working in this case. There is a new version for Mac OS X 10.5 recently released: Fink 0.9.0. After updating my Fink to this version (just do a quick fink selfupdate), now I could get windowmaker. However, one more problem followed. The X11 windows crashed immediately after its being launched. I could even do nothing before its disappearing. That really sucks. I couldn’t even touch the “Window Focus Preference” option. I thought it might a problem of the .xinitrc file, so made some edition to it with comparison to my old Mac file, but it didn’t work. Somehow it showed “fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server “/tmp/launch-R27MOU/:0″, so I turned to the org.x.X11.plist file trying to make it work. There were 4 items in this plist instead of just 1. Since I don’t have another such file to look at, I kept it unchanged. BTW, in my previous OS X Tiger, there’s no such a file. It seems Apple just changed the way X11 works on their Leopard (I know this is OLD news). Well, after I install whole bunch of softwares, including steps such as “sudo apt-get install gv” and “sudo apt-get installauctex“, the X11 server finally came back…BUT, whatever I did with the preference setup, I couldn’t get the “Full Screen” toggled. It’s really ridiculous when I found out this is because the damned bug in Leopard X11! Actually people are now taking back Tiger’s X under Leopard to fix this bug and one step is “sudo mv /usr/X11 /tmp/“! I’m beaten!! All I need to do is to go back to Tiger’s X and what I’ve done is wasting my time!!! Shoot Leopard X11 !!!!

Windowmaker SUCKS!

It’s so abnormal that I couldn’t install windowmaker successfully on my new Mac leopard. I did have developer tool which is Xcode installed, and also Fink, X-Server installed. I change shell too. However, every time  I trying to install windowmaker with “apt-get install”, it comes out an Error saying “cannot find package…” Have to figure it out.