Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
A fix for a miscolored X11 cursor on Intel Macs
Authored by: KenHTanaka on Feb 07, '07 10:29:36PM
I suspect that the people who are having trouble may have had the file they downloaded get automatically expanded, which is not what you want in this case.

You can tell if this has happened if the downloaded file is no longer compressed, "xfix.tar" instead of "xfix.tar.gz", or even worse, got un-archived as well and you have a set of nested directories ending in Xquartz such as: "download_directory/usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz"

If you have xfix.tar, then leave the "z" option off the tar command, which is expecting a compressed file (ending in ".gz"). Install with

sudo tar xvf xfix.tar -C /
If the xfix.tar.gz file you downloaded ended up uncompressed and then unpacked as well, and you don't have an xfix.tar file to work with, you should first try using Safari to re-download the file. If that is what you used the first time, then the same thing will probably happend again. The wget command should do the right thing, but I believe that is not standard issue in Mac OS X (you would have to get it and install it). You should have the "curl" command though, and the way to use that is:
# lines starting with "#" are comments, don't type these
# change directory to where you have permission to download, your desktop
# should suffice:

cd ~/Desktop

# now download the fix file:

curl -o xfix.tar.gz http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rayg/pub/xfix.tar.gz

# you should now have a "xfix.tar.gz" that you can install with the
# directions posted.
After an install of any new software or system upgrades, it's a good idea to run your Disk Utility and use the Repair Disk Permissions option on the hard disk.

[ Reply to This | # ]