MacOS X Tips

TO DO

Issues

• Increase font size: http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000196.html / TinkerTool / Silk
• British Windows keyboard mapping: http://neuro.me.uk/2009/08/31/getting-the-uk-keyboard-layout-right-in-snow-leopard/
• 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
• VNC
• 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. One working build is 14225. To build this:

NB. Ensure you don't have xmms or xmms-shlibs installed via fink/apt-get

• svn co -r 14225 http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv/contrib/OSX mythtv-14225
• cd mythtv-14225
• ./osx-packager.pl -svnrev 14225

Alternatively, to fix the latest version for an Intel Mac:

• svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv/contrib/OSX mythtv
• cd mythtv
• Add "'--arch=pentium4'," to the mythtv args list around line 488 of osx-packager.pl
• ./osx-packager.pl
• You'll get an "ERROR: CPU specific ./configure options failed compile test" warning when osx-packager runs configure for mythtv, but this can be ignored