Difference between revisions of "MacOS X Tips"
From Briki
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* VLC | * VLC | ||
* MediaCentral | * MediaCentral | ||
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| + | == Useful Commands == | ||
| + | ; mdinfo : Mac equivalent to locate (since it seems locatedb isn't periodically updated for OS X) | ||
== Installing from the command line == | == Installing from the command line == | ||
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* hdiutil attach ''file''.dmg | * hdiutil attach ''file''.dmg | ||
* cd /Volumes/''mount''/ | * cd /Volumes/''mount''/ | ||
Revision as of 12:04, 11 October 2007
Contents
TO DO
Issues
- Increase font size: http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000196.html, T
- British Windows keyboard mapping: http://www.clunkclunk.com/mskeyboards.zip
- Maximise firefox
Configuration
- DesktopManager - run at startup: http://forums.mactalk.com.au/showthread.php?t=6873
- smb shares - mount at startup: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031022164821984
Software
- RemoteBuddy
- xvid codec
- VLC
- MediaCentral
Useful Commands
- mdinfo
- Mac equivalent to locate (since it seems locatedb isn't periodically updated for OS X)
Installing from the command line
- hdiutil attach file.dmg
- cd /Volumes/mount/
- sudo installer -pkg install.pkg -target "/"
Compiling mythtv
At the time of writing the current (14660) revision of mythtv does not build for Mac OS X. The most recent working build is 14650. To build this:
- svn co -r 14650 http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk
- mv trunk mythtv-14650
- cd mythtv-14650/mythtv/contrib/OSX/
- ./osx-packager.pl -nohead
