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31-10-2007, 08:09 AM
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The Fail Whale
Group: Regulars
Location: Frequent Flyer!
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Useful Leopard Hacks
Hey,
with a few threads going right now about hacking leopard to do various things, i thought it'd be cool to have a thread about hacks you've found, and hacks you'd like to find.
I'll kick things off, how do i hack mail to update rss feeds every minute, rather than every 30 minutes?
pete..
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31-10-2007, 09:21 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Use a separate RSS reader.
but.... you REALLY don't want to be hitting people's servers every minute mate, think of the bandwidth costs for them. I set my RSS to refresh every hour, and I feel a little guilty that it's that often.
I only want to make the menu bar opaque again and then I'm happy. 
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31-10-2007, 09:22 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Boo-ga-wona-land
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I've got one that'll bypass the system requirements check for installation  |
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31-10-2007, 09:25 AM
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Widgeteer
Group: Forum Leaders
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Disko has some great dock hacks... Please post them!
Squozen: I'd like that too. Any other takers?
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31-10-2007, 09:36 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Near Norwood, Adelaide
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I got one that will make the stacks act kinda like the old folders. You still don't get hierarchic menus but you can at least one click to open their folder window rather than the stack view.
In com.apple.dock.plist
find these lines for the folders you want to modify
<key>tile-type</key>
<string>directory-tile</string>
and replace with these
<key>tile-type</key>
<string>folder-tile</string>
Unfortunately it also seems to reset back to directory every so often. I can't make it permanent yet.
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31-10-2007, 09:44 AM
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I'm crackin' skulls
Group: Forum Leaders
Location: Melbourne
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Squozen
I only want to make the menu bar opaque again and then I'm happy. |
It's opaque on my iMac G4 and my dad's rev A iMac G5 - so there's something in the background that enables/disables transparency already. Hopefully that will give you a starting point. |
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31-10-2007, 09:58 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
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its got something to do with quartz or core image. if your vid card doesn't support one of them it wont work.
as for the requirements one - i tried installing on a g4 450mhz but it just crashed on disc startup. im guessing it wont work on it at all
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31-10-2007, 10:21 AM
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Member
Group: Registered Users
Location: Newcastle
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As i posted in another thread:
For anyone thats interested, the Terminal code to change the bottom-of-screen anchored Dock to 2D is as follows:
% defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
% killall Dock
Taken from Ars Technica's in-depth Leopard review:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/4 |
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31-10-2007, 10:33 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Blue Mts, NSW
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Squozen
I only want to make the menu bar opaque again and then I'm happy. |
You could put a white band across the top of your background image?
The menu bar doesn't look truly transparent, it only shows the background image, if you put an icon up there you can't see it, so it's a bit of a fudge I reckon.
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31-10-2007, 11:13 AM
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Resident Pirate
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney Metropolitan
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IT ONLY SHOWS THE BACKGROUND IMAGE!?!
And there I was, saying that when the Mac terminal goes transparent, you can see *everything* behind it, other windows, icons, you name it. This was opposed to the Unix terminals at uni only showing the desktop background (as if with x-ray vision through other windows).
Oh wait, maybe I overreacted. Maybe the drop-down menus are semi-transparent just like they are in Tiger.
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Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4, Still can't quicklook volume icons of greater than 128*128 when icon was pasted from picture.
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31-10-2007, 11:30 AM
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Taking a break
Group: Forum Leaders
Location: Adelaide
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Quote:
Originally Posted by marc
Disko has some great dock hacks... Please post them!
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The chaps on the internets beat me to posting these - Danamania did this first, she has a pretty rainbow dock.
Here are three I did:
Shiny black, Checkerboard, Hazard
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31-10-2007, 11:32 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: S37°56.2' E145°07.6'
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iPirate
IT ONLY SHOWS THE BACKGROUND IMAGE!?!
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Yes:
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31-10-2007, 12:13 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Near Norwood, Adelaide
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You can edit the Open Directory settings of accounts in the Accounts pref pane by right-clicking (control-clicking) the account and choosing "Advanced Options..." Remember to unlock the pref pane first.
Found somewhere else. Not sure the origin.
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31-10-2007, 01:19 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Penrith, NSW
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How the heck do you skin the docks? tell us please! ::: drools :::
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31-10-2007, 01:22 PM
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Super
Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iTrooper
How the heck do you skin the docks? tell us please! ::: drools :::
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Make the Leopard dock easier to see! |
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