MacOS X Tips

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:

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

• svn co -r 14650 http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk
• mv trunk mythtv-14650
• cd mythtv-14650/mythtv/contrib/OSX/
• ./osx-packager.pl -nohead