I know what I'm doing when it comes to Mac OS X. Unfortunately, I cannot say this for Terminal and Unix. Lately I have been experimenting with theming. I have done some light theming (SuperDocker and such) and a little bit of heavier, more complicated stuff - through Magnifique.app and some DIY. I had some fun installing an HUD Dock from http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16789672. I also installed ThemePark and opened it, but did nothing with it.
Then, I tried to open an application to try my new theme in case I had to tweak it a bit before restarting.
Icon bounces. And bounces. Does nothing. I try this with other apps for same result.
What do I think to do? Restart! Well, loginwindow.app is among the apps on my machine that won't launch. I've started up into Verbose mode and confirmed that Mac OS X will load unscathed UNTIL it tries to run loginwindow.app. What it tells me:
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[changing 4 digit number]: Login Window Application Started -- Threaded auth
So, my mac doesn't have the authorization to open a new thread. What will I do?
Oh... and I'm on vacation. My re-install disks are, of course, at home, as well as my time-machine backups, which are a couple weeks old anyway. I have access to another mac, though it is a different model, with a clean OS from a relative who actually likes to use their computer instead of tweak it and crash it. My MacBook, on the other hand, has no FireWire. Sometimes I can find my way out of these issues, but I can't log into Mac OS X and I am a little lost when it comes to command-line and Unix, so PLEASE help me.
A couple ideas:
1. Would repairing permissions help? I know I had to tweak these to get the theme images in their places.
1b. How do I do this in Unix? Can I do this via remote install on the other Mac, since it's a part of the OS install disk, or does remote install only install OS X (which I could do if necessary, though I don't want to resort to that)
2. Would using a flash drive and an online guide to file management in unix to copy clean versions of the files I tweaked from one machine to the other help? Since I wasn't using an app, I know exactly what I tweaked and maybe how to undo it.
PLEASE help! My MacBook is spitting out relative gibberish and I really need to fix it. If someone has extensive experience in theming and the problems that may arise in decoding and encoding the SArtfiles.bin using artTools especially, you would would have my eternal gratitude.
Then, I tried to open an application to try my new theme in case I had to tweak it a bit before restarting.
Icon bounces. And bounces. Does nothing. I try this with other apps for same result.
What do I think to do? Restart! Well, loginwindow.app is among the apps on my machine that won't launch. I've started up into Verbose mode and confirmed that Mac OS X will load unscathed UNTIL it tries to run loginwindow.app. What it tells me:
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[changing 4 digit number]: Login Window Application Started -- Threaded auth
So, my mac doesn't have the authorization to open a new thread. What will I do?
Oh... and I'm on vacation. My re-install disks are, of course, at home, as well as my time-machine backups, which are a couple weeks old anyway. I have access to another mac, though it is a different model, with a clean OS from a relative who actually likes to use their computer instead of tweak it and crash it. My MacBook, on the other hand, has no FireWire. Sometimes I can find my way out of these issues, but I can't log into Mac OS X and I am a little lost when it comes to command-line and Unix, so PLEASE help me.
A couple ideas:
1. Would repairing permissions help? I know I had to tweak these to get the theme images in their places.
1b. How do I do this in Unix? Can I do this via remote install on the other Mac, since it's a part of the OS install disk, or does remote install only install OS X (which I could do if necessary, though I don't want to resort to that)
2. Would using a flash drive and an online guide to file management in unix to copy clean versions of the files I tweaked from one machine to the other help? Since I wasn't using an app, I know exactly what I tweaked and maybe how to undo it.
PLEASE help! My MacBook is spitting out relative gibberish and I really need to fix it. If someone has extensive experience in theming and the problems that may arise in decoding and encoding the SArtfiles.bin using artTools especially, you would would have my eternal gratitude.