Leopard Notes
October 26th, 2007 by admin
So, I installed Leopard about 5 hours ago or so, and here are just random initial reactions on my white Macbook (Core 2 Duo).
Updated at the bottom
- Installation took about an hour but I had no foreign language installations (thanks to Monolingual) so it didn’t update them – I think that saves a lot of time.
- Quicklook only works with iWork ’08 docs.
- New screensavers are kind of neat (Mosaic option on photo album based screensavers)
- Spotlight reindexes upon install (~1 hour for me)
- AFP disconnect problem at long last solved (only took 6 years! No more spinning arrow for 10 minutes when an Appleshare volume is mounted and you accidentally leave the network.)
- Emptying trash from dock shows warning – this never used to happen even when the option to warn was set it Finder preferences.
- The new preview is nice – group search results by page (no more 10 results all on the same page) and some more annotation features.
- Lame – No netinfo manager. This means I no longer know how to change the a) shell, b) home directory location for a user. I did an upgrade and it still knows I use tcsh so … there must be some way but not with Netinfo manager. Updated You can now do this in the account preference pane.
- X11 Toggle Full Screen not working. This is troubling, I assume it’s a bug or a bad config file but I can’t get X11 to enter full screen mode, though it’s enabled. The command simply does nothing.
- Where’s the new applescript language guide? This still says updated 1999. That’s rubbish.
- Automator seems better but … could just be I never looked at it thoroughly. I made a nice iPhoto->Zip archive workflow that works nicely.
- It appears to install iTunes 7.4.2
- I’m just now testing out Time Machine. I wish it had a “only back up home folder or this folder or that folder” option rather than a “back up everything but exclude this or that” option.
- Dashcode could be cool. Xcode is on the disc – I’m not sure how new the compilers and such are.
- I like the new print preview in print dialogs. Macworld has a nice hidden features
That’s all for now. I wonder how long until Fink releases a new point release and the headache that usually is.
I haven’t actually installed IRAF on this machine… I’ll do that over the weekend. I’d be very surprised if anything broke though. Except the X11 full screen thing I already mentioned but most of you probably use the Quartz-wm anyway.
Update Juan Cabanela reports that you can change shell and home directory location, etc. in the accounts preference pane which you can read about at Macworld.
Tags: Leopard, OS X — .
A Steffen Says
To change your default shell from bash to tcsh if you decide to do a fresh install of Leopard, type the following command: chsh
You will be prompted for your password and then taken to a editing window (I think it uses Vi) and you can just edit the shell line to the one you want to use. For a list of shells, type: more /etc/shells You then need to restart X11 for the changes to take effect.
Oct 26th, 2007 at 11:30 pm