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| Repeated logins from screensaver | Sep. 11th, 2005 06:48 pm | |
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Frequently when my PB wakes from sleep, I'll give my password to the screensaver, it'll accept it, show the desktop and apps, then go straight back to the screensaver login panel, requiring me to type the password again. Occasionally it'll go right back to sleep. Anyone familiar with this problem or have a solution? I'm fairly sure I'm not just mistyping my password; it happens far too frequently for that, and I know I'm >>95% accurate typing it in elsewhere. PowerBook G4 12", Mac OS X 10.4.2 | ||
| The joy of OSX | Jan. 12th, 2005 10:18 pm | |
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OSX very helpfully comes with X11. Less helpfully it's a non-default install and lies in a hidden directory on the system restore disks. (/Volumes/PowerBook Software/System/Installation/Packages on Disk 1 for the 12" powerbook) The "obvious" way to install X11 is via fink (apt-get &c for OSX). Except that that's another version of X11, without the OSX chrome or window manager. So, to install an X11 application in fink (eg The Gimp) under Apple's X11, you need to: Check that fink's X11 isn't installed (eg in Fink Commander) Locate the hidden directory on the install disk and "open" the X11User.pkg Check that fink's spotted the Apple install of X11 (look for system-xfree86 in Fink Commander - if it ain't there, future installs of X11 apps will try and install the Fink X11 framework for you, and foul up when they hit the Apple X11. Try restarting the machine to see if that makes Fink Commander spot it). *Now* you can install gimp, either by apt-get or Fink Commander. But if you try and do it with apt-get in an Apple X11 xterm you'll probably find that the path doesn't include the fink root directories under /sw. So use a terminal or Fink Commander. After all that it finally works, and you get a nice shiny apple-style gimp :) But hell, I managed to work all of this out on a semi-alien OS, so I must be doing *something* right... (oh and the other plus is that I can sit in the kitchen and write this on the powerbook when it's playing MP3s off the server while plugged only into a pair of speakers. Which is really an essential ability for a lappy, I feel). | ||
| OSX... | Feb. 11th, 2004 05:07 pm | |
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I'm getting ever more fond of this OS, to the extent that if I can ever afford a new computer again it'll probably be an ibook. But this machine has a nasty habit of failing to write to HDD at the end of a day, and I think that, with the help of a little monitor app called iPulse, I've figured out why. OSX doesn't use a swap partition; it uses fixed-sized swap files. And it creates new ones as and when it feels like it (and can't be limited by the user). Something must be leaking in this box as it seems to add a new one every few hours, possibly filling the HDD by the end of the day... So with any luck I'll get a bigger HDD and a Panther install off IT, and then this machine can be happy again. | ||