MacOS X Tips
From Briki
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. One working build is 14225. To build this:
- 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
