Jean-Guy’s Blog

After half a year of waiting, I finally organized myself an upgrade DVD for Mac OS X Leopard and spent a couple of days backing up old files, installing an new OS, getting all the tools I had together again etc. All in all, it was worth the effort, although there are a few little things that I am not 100% happy about:

• Per default, my primary groups is now ’staff’, and so far I have not found a way to change this. But I will keep searching…
• X11 and Finder cannot always communicate with each other and X11 leaves certain areas of the screen white, in particular when you work with external displays (it seems to work fine as long as you only use 1 display). Installed the recommended (semi-official) update for X11 but this did not help. I also noticed that if a smaller X11 window is completely behind another window, you cannot select the smaller one as long as the bigger window is active - one has to minimize the bigger X window.
• ‘mount’ cannot access the Keychain to get passwords to mount external drives from the command-line. This uses to work under Tiger. Again, something to investigate.

Other than that, I have the impression that a few packages run a bit faster, but this might only be my personal impression…

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