Tatiana Azundris

 
remove Magnifique, it's not compatible with snolo and will break it really badly – yeah, I learnt more about OS X single user than I ever cared to. As you know, Cmd-S at boot enter single user mode (and Alt gives a boot media selector!). But did you also know that you can't see the bloody DVD from within single user mode, and trying to mount it fails? So you know which files are broken in your install, you have them right there on the DVD, only you can't easily get to them. Oh, and trying to reinstall snolo fails on account of some printer driver suddenly, allegedly, having become unreadable. Hi Apple, where's skip this file in your install? Linux beats you and runs circles around you again – before the OS is even installed. Anyway, props for TimeMachine, at least that worked.
As for themes? Recent ThemePark should work, but I haven't tried it yet.

Next? switch ports to 64-bit, rebuild – if port install installed fails, building GIMP with the +animation variant is the next best thing to make world – it builds graphics libs, glib2, gtk2, video and sound libs thanks to the +animation variant, gzip, and even gcc43!

gimp2 build fails on 64-bit, this is a known problem with a pretty simple workaround.

install enlightenment DR 16, xemacs, urxvt, pstree, wmctrl, gkrellm2, weechat. The latter now has multi-line input fields. Sweet!

if xemacs freezes on start-up, gnuserv may be wonky. rename the binary, or - preferably - comment out (gnuserv-start) if you know where to find it in your per-user configuration. I built 21.5.x for Xft; I need to ask for a different font-size now to get the one I'm used to. Maybe it's this xemacs, maybe it's this Xft, maybe it's my build. Wev.

fix backspace in vim.

Update fink, if any. I'm a bit dispassionate on the "ports, or fink?" question these days. Recently, ports seemed to follow the Debian motto ("The oldest packages in the known world!"), while fink had more and more recent stuff, whereas after switching to snolo and 64-bit, ports hasn't failed me yet – at least in the sense that packages weren't there, or weren't recent; individual builds have failed (see above), but are being worked on. If you try your luck with fink first instead, I certainly won't hold it against you.
Addendum: qt4-x11 in ports is old (4.4) and does not officially support 10.6. fink has it (qt4-x11 4.5.2) if you enable "unstable." This matters if you want amarok, as port only has amarok2 (which requires qt4) for X11. fink has both amarok and amarok2 (and a recent qt4), but its amarok2 is older than port's.
Addendum: Built amarok 1.4; it builds, but doesn't work. Building amarok2 of course also doesn't work, but that's because qt4 pulls in strigi which doesn't work, and that's because the strigi build (from fink) finds cppunit (from ports), then runs tests I never wanted (for a library I don't intend to use, come to think of it), and barfs. Serves me right for letting fink see /opt/local while building, I suppose. However, the build also seems blissfully unaware of snolo's lack of an fdatasync() prototype, and since I do have a breaking point, I'm just faking it into §$%$%§ unistd.h for now, mapping it on fsync(). Disable kpac in kio. Barf City.


set X11 to "auto-hide menu" via .plist, apply settings:

defaults write org.x.X11 enable_fake_buttons -boolean false
defaults write org.x.X11 fullscreen_menu -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 fullscreen_hotkeys -boolean false
defaults write org.x.X11 enable_key_equivalents -boolean false
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_keymap -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_pasteboard -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_pasteboard_to_clipboard -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_pasteboard_to_primary -boolean true
# setting the flwg to true prevents klipper etc.:
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_clipboard_to_pasteboard -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 sync_primary_on_select -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 enable_test_extensions -boolean true
defaults write org.x.X11 nolisten_tcp -boolean false

## WM - failsafe, we'll mainly use e16

defaults write org.x.X11 wm_ffm -bool true
defaults write org.x.X11 wm_click_through -bool true
defaults write org.x.x11 wm_focus_on_new_window -bool false
defaults write org.x.X11 wm_window_shading -bool true
defaults write org.x.X11 wm_limit_size -bool false
defaults write org.x.x11 wm_focus_on_new_window -bool false
defaults write org.x.X11 wm_window_shading -bool true
defaults write org.x.X11 wm_auto_quit -bool false

QuickSilver doesn't seem to work on 10.6, that's OK

install FastScripts - so in Aqua, Alt-F raises Firefox, Alt-S raises skype, etc.

xbindkeys - so that in X11, Alt-F raises Firefox (the one running in Aqua), Alt-E raises emacs (running in X11), etc., and Alt-1..8 still go to the corresponding Aqua Spaces (while Alt-F1..12 go to the enlightenment ones)..

install DejaMenu - to put the application menu in a context-menu (Ctrl-Cmd-<), so we can auto-hide the silly menu-bar if we want. The 15" MBP has a pitiful resolution, so we'd better save screen estate!

(Installing tabkit for Firefox is another concession to that.)

install Trampoline - for a"pie-menu" style dock (Alt-Cmd-<)

install and set up BetterTouchTool, like so:
- 4swipe-up: Trampoline
- 4swipe-down: DejaMenu
- 3tap: Cmd-click; X11: middle click

put xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2" into ~/.xinitrc so we get the taps the X way around in X11 (1tap click/mark, 2tap paste, 3tap context-menu)

autostart BTT, trampoline, dejaMenu
(SystemPreferences->Accounts->LoginItems)

install instantShot

Congrats, you just switched to 64 bits for no apparent reason!!