Hi Folks,
I've said it before and I'll say it again, MintPPC is totally awesome, has brought my old iBook back to life and I'm loving it. In a world where recycling is paramount this is where the OS should be going, thanks to all concerned.

Just a quick one though and not a problem if it can't be done, just thought it would be nice...
What's the best way to make it look like OSX? I've installed Mac4Lin on an old Ubuntu machine and that was pretty cool but not sure howto on MintPPC or if there's something else to try.

Cheers
Andy
Oh and scrolling touchpad and something other than F11 for a right click would be on my wish list.

You have to realize that what you are working with is LXDE. LXDE is a lightweight desktop manager. What you want is something like GNOME2 with a dock program like docky or cairo-dock. This is not what I intended with MintPPC. You could logoff and log into a GNOME classic session and try to get mac4lin working there. You have to also realize that in MintPPC 11 there is no GNOME 2 anymore, but Gnome 3. Mac4lin will not work with Gnome3.

No worries, I'll stick with the Mint LXDE, just thought I'd ask.
Thanks for the reply.

XFCE will run faster than Gnome and it has more of a Mac OS feel without adding anything to it. It has bottom of the screen deck like Mac OS X with an autohide option. LXDE is lighter though and will be more responsive on old machines. If you have a G3 iBook I'll stick to LXDE.

Has anybody tried XFCE on MintPPC? I have Xubuntu Oneiric running on my old Dell C400 just fine. It's my daily work computer works fine for almost everything. I even had QGis running on it for a while, that was a bit slow but still workable.

I use xfce on MintPPC 11, I suspect a likely outcome is updates will have to be ignored,(only choose safe update). I think Avant Window Navigator, or Awn for short would be an easy way to get a Mac like look. You can use it on Openbox or Xfce.
I think Openbox might be a good choice for Mac-ing your desktop.
My eMac is for fun, so I'm really not afraid to break things, you'll have to decide if you can afford possible problems.
Here are two screenshots.One is xfce, the other openbox, neither with much tweaking on my end.
[img][IMG]http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7931/openshot3d.th.png[/img][/img]
[img][IMG]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/6055/screenshotxfce00.th.png[/img][/img]

I tried XFCE on top of MintPPC but i didn't find it that much of an improvment, not even esthetically. The Mint panel has also an option to autoappear/disappear (even better than those of Xfce, i find). And then, i found this tip which really makes a lot of difference esthetically and nearly costs nothing performancewise . . .

pcmanfm is highly adaptable to do things nearly like the finder (but giving you a lot more of control).

Cheers.

Great replies, thanks folks.

Howdy,

Have you tried to force install Macbuntu? It should work I did it in my wife's powerbook and it looked great if you want a docky. However, I think that it is dependent on Compiz so make sure your graphics card can handle it.

Compiz installed fine, forced Macbuntu but it's doesn't seem to work, there was an error installing Docky (no such folder).
Any pointers?

Thanks.