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vakkotaur

Mac OS X tweaks - notes for myself

Dec 29, 2007 16:20

Turn off the annoying bouncy crap:
Go to System Preferences and under "Personal" choose "Dock" and de-select: [_] Animate opening applications. Now instead of the annoying bouncing, the glowing dot beneath an icon will wink slowly - indicating a startup without being obnoxious about it.

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IM client invader_tak_1 December 30 2007, 02:28:53 UTC

http://www.adiumx.com/

And YEs the colors are VERY customizable

Re: IM client yakko December 30 2007, 03:02:01 UTC

Really... Adium is the start and end of IM on MacOS X. With the proper message styles, one can make it look like anything they want!

yakko December 30 2007, 03:07:30 UTC

For image viewing, I use gqview (courtesy of Fink and X11) and Xee.

I've tried several times to use a suitable IRC client that was native to MacOS X, and have failed each time. X-Chat (X11) with perl scripting it is. X-Chat Aqua almost worked, but the perl scripting was busted, then it kept crashing. I forgot why I didn't switch last time, so maybe it's time to check in and see how they're doing again.

As far as editors go, I still use vi (MacOS X comes with VIM, even!), so can't really help when GUI editors are concerned.

vakkotaur December 30 2007, 03:21:50 UTC

Thanks, I expect I'll get around to looking for an image viewer eventually. Right now I want an image editor so I have a shot at making an Opera skin that is what I desire.

Smultron seems like it will be a decent GUI editor, I just haven't gotten to it yet.

With all the fiddling around to get things the way I want, or find work-arounds for stuff that even Microsoft managed to get right (in Windows 3.0, even!) I am beginning to wonder: Is OS X ready for the desktop?

invader_tak_1 December 30 2007, 03:38:50 UTC

Oh now you are just baiting us.

yakko December 30 2007, 10:36:24 UTC

image editor

Oops. Then GIMP.app is what you want. By that, I mean GIMP-Leopard-PPC or something that actually works. The usual GIMP.app doesn't work, at least not on my PPC Mac mini (which is also the box I'm testing Leopard on).

You will most likely need to install a working X11 for Leopard. This package requires the installed X11User, so you should be good there. The version included with Leopard is deficient in a few areas, and will give you all sorts of trouble.

Once I fixed X11 and downloaded a working GIMP, it all works great.

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