Am 29.11.2008 um 16:00 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:

If I get Tiger setup locally,

... which shouldn't be so complicated since modern Macs (and also portables) can boot from external disks ...

I'll look into it more, but you may need to do some digging on your own for now...

I have no idea of what *I* can do further. To me it looks as if the components don't talk to each other via Mac OS X channels. Is it possible to build an X11 that works like in any other UNIX software? I don't want an half-initialised X server start without window manager when I make a mistake and invoke an X client without X actually running. The time to wait until I can kill this nuisance costs too much ... -- Greetings Pete "No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket, or at least had been fooling around with timetables." – Archie Goodwin