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Make XQuartz more usable

28-Jul-08

This post is an update to Make Gimp.app usable on a mac: The “Click through” property on both Apples X11 and the X11 provided by XQuartz is not set. This leads to the fact, that you have to click on each X11 window twice: First activating it, 2nd pushing a button or whatever else. I […]

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Data organisation

18-Jul-08

The way i organize my data has changed a lot over the last years. Way back in the last millennium i had folders for everything. A folder within a folder within folders. And somewhere buried deep within that, my applications, music, pictures, email and whatnot. Although Apple does the best a company can going from […]

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Put your mac to rest via ssh

17-Jul-08

Sometimes my Macbook decides to wake up from his sleep (a.k.a hibernation). Most of the times i notice this at work when my emails disappear from my imap inbox as Mail.app applies his rules. As i do not have Apple Remote Desktop or any other VNC server enabled on my Macbook, i do have a […]

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Firefox 3 Mouse Wheel Zoom

08-Jul-08

Zooming with the CTRL+Mouse Wheel Up/Down has been in inversed in Firefox 3. In version 2 you zoomed in (enlarged the text) with CTRL+Mouse Wheel Down and zoomed out with CTRL+Mouse Wheel Up, its now in Firefox 3 the other way round. The revert back to the old behaviour, change mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines = 1 to mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines […]

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