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Stop XQuartz from showing icon in the OSX dock and stop loading xterm on start Edit /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/Info.plist as root (ie, sudo vim in a terminal), and add the following key/value inside of dict : key NSUIElement /key string 1 /string . and in your terminal run defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 app_to_run /usr/bin/true, and then restart XQuartz: the dock icon should be gone and it shouldn t start xterm anymore. Features Safari needs to have to be considered as an everyday browser I ve recently switched to Safari over Firefox to see how Safari has caught up using my Macbook Pro 13 Retina. It came with OSX 10.8 and Safari 6, and I didn t even bother trying out Safari, and Firefox was one of the first things I installed.It does do many thing better than Firefox:It renders text much better than Firefox on a Retina display. They re different but neither is outright better on a non-Retina display. I m pretty sure Firefox on OSX supports Retina, so I don t know why the text rendering is inferior.It uses less memory loading the same pages (Gmail, G+, HN, Reddit, Feedly, which comprise my daily viewing experience).It supports ICCv4 color profiles, and supports per-monitor color profiles. Firefox only supports ICCv2 (most color profiling tools output either ICCv4 only, or ICCv4 by default and the option is hidden in the preferences), and it only uses the primary monitor profile instead of the profile for the monitor the window is currently on. Firefox really needs to fix this.It does seem to increase my battery life over Firefox.It does things better than it used to:It s a lot faster than it used to be, especially with Javascript. Apple says it is faster than Firefox stable, but I can t tell if it is faster than Firefox nightly (what I usually run) without benchmarking it. Firefox and Safari are now both fast enough with Javascript execution that I can t tell the difference between the two.It now supports session restore. I think this was added in Safari 6, but it was a long time sore point for Safari users and one of the reasons I never used Safari.What it doesn t do and shouldn t leave up to extensions:Lack of useful undo history. Safari 5 introduced undo close tab, but it still doesn t have undo close window, or selectively undoing close tab/window out of your history. Plus, undo closed tab is bound to ctrl-z instead of ctrl-shift-t. There is no extension to fix this.Does not pop up the URL at the bottom of the screen when hovering a link. I installed Ultimate Status Bar to add thisKeyword Search. Safari still lacks this, and I added Safari Omnikey to fill in the gap, however the Omnikey button must remain in the toolbar or it won t function, cluttering your toolbar up.Does not display Favicon on tab label.Cannot position new tabs flexibly (such as at the end of the tab bar).Does not focus last selected tab when closing a tab.Minimum tab size is far too large.Cannot maximize SafariThese can be fixed by installing Glims, but I recommend if you use Glims on Safari 7 disable everything in Glims (in the Glims->General preferences panel) except Other Tabs Improvements and Add Max Window Size Menu Option , everything else conflicts with Safari 7 s built in functionality (but is still useful for earlier versions of Safari); look in the Glims->Tabs Misc preferences panel to enable Favicons, smaller tab sizes, focus last selected, and new tab position, and remember to turn off Glims ads in the Glims->Ads/Shopping preferences panel.Apple could catch up to Firefox as a modern browser by implementing these features. How to make the Insert/Help key emit Insert in iTerm2 Go into iTerm2 preferences and go to the keys tab. Hit the + button at the bottom to add a new key. Press your Insert/Help key to set that as your shortcut key, then select Send Escape Sequence as your action, and set [2~ as your escape sequence. Running DRM/DRI/Mesa/DDX/Xorg from git on Debian Sid A lot of the guides out there on how to build the entire X stack from scratch are missing steps or are only for part of the stack. This assumes you re on Radeon, substitute appropriately for Intel or NVidia (download different driver, use different options with Mesa).Please note: I haven t been able to get i386 on amd64 builds to work yet, so if you need to run 32 bit apps on 64 bit, stick with your distro s build for everything, don t mix and match.To get the source:sudo apt-get build-dep libdrm mesa xserver-xorg-video-ati xorg-serversudo apt-get install git llvm-3.4-dev libelf-dev linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essentialmkdir xorg && cd xorggit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/util/macrosgit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/proto/x11protogit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drmgit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libXaugit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xservergit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesagit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/glamorgit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-atigit clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdevLLVM versionMesa requires LLVM 3.4 or newer, and Debian Sid is still on 3.3 as default. Until this is fixed, make sure the package llvm-3.3 is not installed, and do ln -s /usr/bin/llvm-config-3.4 /usr/bin/llvm-configModify the environmentAdd to /etc/environment:LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/opt/xorg/lib/dri/R600_DEBUG=sbAdd to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:Section "Files" ModulePath "/opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules,/usr/lib/xorg/modules"EndSectionSection "Module" Load "dri2" Load "glamoregl"EndSection and in the Device section for your video card add Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" and make sure Driver is set to "radeon".Create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/0-xorg-git.conf:/opt/xorg/libBuild the codeexport PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/xorg/lib/pkgconfig:\/opt/xorg/share/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/xorg/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}export LD_RUN_PATH=/opt/xorg/lib:${LD_RUN_PATH}export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/xorg/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/xorg/includeexport ACLOCAL="/usr/bin/aclocal -I /opt/xorg/share/aclocal"cd macros./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorgsudo make installcd ..cd x11proto./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorgsudo make installcd ..cd drm./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorgmake -j4sudo make installcd ..cd libXau./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorgmake -j4sudo make installcd ..cd xserver./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorg --enable-xorg --disable-dmx --disable-xvfb --disable-xnest --disable-xwinmake -j4sudo make installcd ..sudo chown root /opt/xorg/bin/Xorgsudo chmod u+s /opt/xorg/bin/Xorgsudo ldconfigsudo ln -s /usr/bin/xkbcomp /opt/xorg/bin/xkbcompsudo ln -s /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules /opt/xorg/share/X11/xkb/rulescd mesaexport DRI_DRIVERS="radeon,r200"export GALLIUM_DRIVERS="r300,r600,radeonsi,swrast"./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorg --with-dri-drivers=$DRI_DRIVERS --with-gallium-drivers=$GALLIUM_DRIVERS --with-egl-platforms=x11,drm --enable-gbm --enable-shared-glapi --enable-glx-tls --enable-driglx-direct --enable-gles1 --enable-gles2 --enable-r600-llvm-compiler --enable-xorg --enable-xa --enable-gallium-egl --enable-gallium-gbm --enable-texture-floatmake -j4sudo make installcd ..cd glamor./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorgmake -j4sudo make installcd ..cd xf86-video-ati./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorg --enable-glamormake -j4sudo make installcd ..cd xf86-input-evdev./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xorgmake -j4sudo make installcd ..All you have to do now is tell your XDM to use /opt/xorg/bin/Xorg and then restart it. The Xserver puts its log in /opt/xorg/var/log/Xorg.0.log Small updates to my CD/DVD archival media article Man, it feels funny updating that after so long. I originally wrote it in 2006, so thats 7 years ago.

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