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Problems / Help with the fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
Authored by: csims on Oct 09, '06 07:18:37PM

Hi,

I'm sorry but I'm new to using the terminal and I'm having some problems making this work on an Intel Quad Mac Pro. I have the file downloaded to the desktop. I get this error if typing what I'm supposed to after switching the directory to the desktop where the file is:

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Last login: Mon Oct 9 20:11:31 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
EOA-APPLEG5PRO-2006-1:~ claytonrodney$ cd Desktop
EOA-APPLEG5PRO-2006-1:~/Desktop claytonrodney$ sudo tar zxvf xfix.tar.gz -C /
tar (child): xfix.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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If I omit the .gz then I get the following errors:

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EOA-APPLEG5PRO-2006-1:~/Desktop claytonrodney$ sudo tar zxvf xfix.tar -C /

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
EOA-APPLEG5PRO-2006-1:~/Desktop claytonrodney$
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What am I doing wrong? I do not have X11 open at the time and I am using the default "terminal" found in the "utilities" folder.

Thanks.
csims



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Problems / Help with the fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
Authored by: vnoel on Dec 04, '06 11:03:05AM

The problem is that Safari unzips archive files without asking, and the command line instructions assume the file is still zipped when you run them. If you've downloaded the file through Safari, and it's now called "xfix.tar", you have to use this command instead :

sudo tar xvf xfix.tar -C /

notice the "xvf" instead of "zxvf" -- the "z" means you're acting on a zipped file.



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