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Ok, so I’ve obviously been doing a lot of Leopard posts. I’ll try to round things up here. I should say that if you’re upgrading, uninstall unsanity’s “application enhancer” and be advised that it may be installed by some other utility you use – I think it appears as a preference pane if it’s installed. [...]
Tags: apple, Leopard, OS X — .Updated at the bottom | Second Update So, here’s the quasi-official word from Ben Byer, one of Apple’s x11 developers on Apple’s x11-users list. Biggest architectural change in Leopard for X11: Switched from XFree86 codebase (based on, IIRC, X11R6.8) to X.org codebase (X11R7.2) Biggest user-visible change: launchd support for X11. The only situation where you [...]
Tags: Leopard, unix, x11 — .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 [...]
Tags: Leopard, OS X — .I’ll be trying out Leopard on my Macbook and seeing how nice it plays with IRAF, IDL etc this weekend. You can buy Leopard from Amazon using my affiliate links and, to borrow a term from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, make me rich. Amazon’s price is actually better than the higher educational price (which is [...]
Tags: apple, Leopard, OS X — .If you have any issues getting IDL to properly record/recognize the cursor position or mouse clicks, you may want to try this command in the terminal defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true Frank Varosi here at UF gave me this tip, which he found at this french site. What this command does is it changes [...]
Tags: apple, IDL, Leopard, x11 — .Bad Behavior has blocked 608 access attempts in the last 7 days.