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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) OS X GUI question Post 302187597 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Monday 21st of April 2008 01:48:29 PM
Old 04-21-2008
You would be better off either using the provided Apple GUI, or getting that PC laptop and installing some flavor of Unix on it. Trying to disable the Apple GUI to run another window manager on the Mac would be just as difficult. It is not supported by Apple, either.

If you really want the Apple hardware, you could partition the Mac's drive and install multiple OS's on the machine. Support for various hardware functionality would depend on the particular OS + drivers that you install.

The only one button anything that Apple ships now is the trackpad button. Multiple button functionality is supported through using two fingers on the trackpad surface while clicking.

my 2 cents.
 

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ppdpo(1)                                                            Apple Inc.                                                            ppdpo(1)

NAME

       ppdpo - ppd message catalog generator

SYNOPSIS

       ppdpo [ -D name[=value] ] [ -I include-directory ] [ -o output-file ] source-file

DESCRIPTION

       ppdpo  extracts  UI  strings from PPDC source files and updates either a GNU gettext or Mac OS X strings format message catalog source file
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       The -D option sets the named variable for use in the source file. It is equivalent to using the #define directive in the source file.

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