nixers - OS X

the end of hackintoshing

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:42:34 +0000

with the T2 announcement it seems like hackintoshing just got it's death warrant.

i just hack'd my X1C6 and it works unbelievably well (other than wifi, waiting on an adapter card for a compatible wifi/bt card I picked up). glad to know i'll at least have a few years before i feel somewhat compelled to buy a new apple machine, and that i'll have time for them to work out the kinks. but to be honest, i am looking forward to owning a non-x86 laptop in 2024 or so!

echo -n does not work as expected

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:26:16 +0000

(In zsh:)

Code:
$ echo -n 123

123%

$ sh

$ echo -n 123

-n 123

Why? ... And is there a way to make sh on macOS follow the standard so I can make my scripts portable?

same question on pkgsrc on darwin

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:59:12 +0000

Hi mate,

I remove homebrew completly from my mac, but now I able to use only pkgin and not pkgsrc-wip....how install this?

can you help me to install bspwm or 2bwm please?

and when I check my list, the output it's wrong he say nothing to do...and the same problem when I try to install some pkg....

How can I load other X11 wm on OS X other than having quartz-wm loading up?

Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:02:01 +0000

Hey I know this may seem like a stupid thread here, but as you may notice i've been using OS X 10.9.3 mavericks on my amd pc, and wondering how you got it using other WM @ yrmt if you can help me with that. I have seen your deviantart profile and have notice you had some wm in X11 in full display and not the original OS X wm. Just wondering how you go about with that.

Thanks you for reading, I hope to get some positive feedback.
btw I'm using your OSXINFO nice little script you made there :)
Cheers!

//cypx

bspwm on OS X Mavericks?

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 23:25:39 +0000

I'm currently trying to install bspwm for OS X.

I was looking at windelicato's guide, but it does not explicitly cover OS X setup, specifically dependencies.

I have downloaded the bspwm and sxhkd source, and installed XQuartz.

Running

Code:
make

in the bswpm directory yields

Code:
cc -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -I/usr/local/include -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L -DVERSION=\"0.8.9\" -Os  -c -o bspwm.o bspwm.c

bspwm.c:41:10: fatal error: 'xcb/xinerama.h' file not found

#include 

         ^

1 error generated.

make: *** [bspwm.o] Error 1

It appears that this stems from the missing xcb dependency (which also appears in the dependency install commands for Debian- and Arch-based distros)

Would anyone be able to help me get this up and running?

Store SSH keys in the Keychain

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:30:35 +0000

This allows you to manage your ssh private key with the Mac OS X keychain:

1. Start ssh-agent for shell use:
# eval `ssh-agent -s`

2. Add your private key:
# ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa

2bwm / alt wm on OSX?

Fri, 09 May 2014 21:57:50 +0000

Can someone post/link a guide for installing 2bwm or any alternative (customisable) window manager on OSX?

Or at least point me into the right direction...

I've seen http://saveosx.org/ but surely the wm's on there don't work out of the box, r-r-right?

Advanced OSX internals book

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:47:03 +0000

http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4274087

Installing LiveTex on OS X 10.6.8

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:03:28 +0000

Hello out there. I am trying to install TeX Live to go with my installation of LaTeX, and following the minimal installation instructions for a Unix-like system (http://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html). The last time I had a need to do this was in college, when I used LaTeX to write my thesis, so my memory of installing this on my old mac is pretty fuzzy.

In any case, all is well until I try to run install-tl. As expected, the installation script attempts to set up folders under the root /usr/local directory, but permission to write to this directory is denied. Indeed, when I navigate to /usr/local through the terminal, and attempt to mkdir from the command line (logged in with my administrative user credentials), I receive a 'permission denied' message.

Anybody know how to login as system, or change the permissions so that I can install here?

Little script I put together

Fri, 06 Sep 2013 23:40:42 +0000

Script mails the email of your choice the time and any changes to ports since the last time it was ran. Still tweaking it but wanted to share progress.

Code:
cp ports ~/.scripts/ports_old

port installed > ports

date >> mail

echo >> mail

echo Port changes: >> mail

diff -u ports_old ports | sed -n '1,2d;/^[-+]/p' >> mail

mail -s "System Report" {email address} < mail

rm mail

Some useful terminal commands in OS X

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 05:57:44 +0000

Though most of these might be well known I figured I'd make a thread about them anyway.

How to show hidden files in Finder and the terminal.
This command will show all hidden files inside of Finder

Code:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

To hide files then just change the value to FALSE and kill finder again.

This command will show hidden files inside of the treminal

Code:
ls -a

The PMSET command. This command allows you to better fine tune your Mac's behavior.
Displays setting in use

Code:
pmset -g

To set the display sleep time to 10 minutes use this:

Code:
pmset -b displaysleep 10

To set a time as to when your mac should poweron use this:

Code:
pmset repeat wakeorpoweron MTWRF 8:00:00

Highlight items in stacks.

Code:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean yes

killall Dock

To disable item highlighting then change the value to FALSE.

Disable the dashboard if you have memory issues.

Code:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean yes

killall Dock

These are just some basic commands I have come across while using OS X. I hope this is useful to someone lol.

OS X Status Awk Lib

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:13:55 +0000

I started writing an awk library for simple status scripts on osx.

Repo

A5 Jailbreak

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:00:35 +0000

So soon there will be a A5 jailbreak! What does everyone think? Will you be jailbreaking your iDevice? Head over to evasi0n.com for further news, the site just went up today! For me having an iPhone 5 i have been patiently waiting for a jailbreak and am anxious to get it, pod2g has given a hint that it will be released this sunday!

Best IRC client: Textual

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:36:57 +0000

Textual is the best IRC client for OS X. You have to pay for the binary but the source is available [here](https://github.com/Codeux/Textual/).
For those who don't have Xcode installed like me, [here](http://paste.xinu.at/LN9rgq/)'s a compiled version(64).

It looks like this:

![img](http://paste.xinu.at/aAJJl/)

Install FreeBSD

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:49:03 +0000

This guide will teach you to install FreeBSD on a mac. We'll do a fast and advanced install.

What you need:

- 2 cd

- refit installed

So I'll assume you have installed Mac OS X on your first partition and left free space for FreeBSD. I'll also assume you have installed refit. Now burn the refit image to a CD as well as FreeBSD on another cd.

Install FreeBSD booting the cd form refit and go in the live cd option in the installer.

You will get a shell and you can login as root. Doesn't need a password.

Check what your disk looks like with 'gpart show'

It should show your ada0 disk with a 0 partition for the efit and 1, a HFS+ partition for Mac OS X and empty space.

Now we'll make the partitions necessary fo FreeBSD:

- gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 64k ada0

- gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s ada0 -- (put the swap size you want, I use 1g)

- gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada0 -- (will use the rest of the space for the root partition, use -s to specify size)

Now you have an
- ada0p3 partition: freebsd-boot
- ada0p4 partition: freebsd-swap
- ada0p5 partition: freebsd-boot

Now make the root partition ready for UFS:

- newfs -j -L disk ada0p5

(check newfs help page for info; ie. -t for trim)

Now mount the root partition and install the kernel and base software:

- mount /dev/ada0p5 /mnt

- tar -xpf /usr/freebsd-dist/kernel.txz -C /mnt

- tar -xpf /usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz -C /mnt

Now make sure FreeBSD mounts the right partitions in /etc/fstab:

Code:
/dev/ada0p4 none  swap  sw 0 0

/dev/ada0p5 /         ufs      rw,async 1 1

Now we want to write the bootcode on the freebsd-boot partition (ada0p3)

- gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot

The install is finished!

Reboot and normally the mac should not boot anything, just a grey screen.

Insert the refit cd and reboot holding the alt key. Select the refit cd and go to the partition manager and press 'y' to update. Now you can reboot and refit should start and show your OS X and FreeBSD partition. But it will show as a generic system. You can tweak the refit config to make it prettier in /efi/refit/* (on the mac ;))

I have not yet managed to make a single boot FreeBSD partition on a Mac.

After all that, reboot in your glorious FreeBSD install from refit and configure your stuff. I have a 10gb partition for Mac OS X now which is not even updated.