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Does anyone know of an alternative to the Jiggler program that I can run under Snow Leopard? Jiggler doesn't work under that OS version yet. For those of you who don't know what Jiggler does, it monitors the use of specific programs, and if they are running, it periodically "jiggles" the mouse...

Thanks. Just know that I'm _happy_ to go to a Terminal window. That's why I mentioned that I have so much experience with Unix/Linux. Terminal windows (or at least their Unix/Linux equivalents) are where I live. But as long as doing this from the Sharing tab causes /bin/hostname to return...

By the way, I just now issued that mount command without rebooting into single-user mode, and then I reissued the launchctl command. I got the same error: launch_msg(): Socket is not connected This is the launchctl command that resulted in that error: launchctl load -F...

Yes, I know. I just want to know if I need to reboot into single-user mode before issuing that mount followed by launchctl. .

Thank you for your response. Yes, I meant "admin" password, not "root". Rebooting does not fix the issue. I'll do that mount a little later and post my results. I presume that I have to boot in single-user mode in order to invoke that mount command, right? .

I recently got a new MacBook Pro and migrated from my older MacBook Pro using the Migration Assistant. I'm running 10.5.7. Pretty much everything transferred OK, but now when I log in to my user account on the new machine and try to run launchctl load ..., I get the following error...

Never mind. I figured it out: the chsh command. .

I'm running the latest version of Leopard, and I would like to change the default login shell for the "root" user, but the command which works under Unix and Linux doesn't seem to work here. As root, I have done a vipw to change the shell to /bin/zsh (my preference) on the root line. This...

I just got a new MacBook Pro running the latest version of Leopard. I want to permanently change the default hostname that it assigned to me, but none of the following work (from a root Terminal session): /bin/hostname newhostname /usr/sbin/networksetup -setcomputername newhostname...

This multi-profile methodology also works for the SeaMonkey browser, which is a version of Mozilla. Here's how to set up SeaMonkey with multiple profiles: 1. Install SeaMonkey (download here: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=seamonkey-1.1.13&os=osx&lang=en-US). 2. Open a Terminal...

It turns out that this multi-profile methodology also works for the Camino browser, which is a stripped down version of Firefox that runs under MacOS. Here's how to set up Camino with multiple profiles: 1. Install Camino (download here...

In another forum, someone reminded me of a better way to solve this multiple cookie database problem. As long as I'm willing to use Firefox instead of Safari (and I am), I can set up multiple Firefox profiles under a single user ID. Each profile manages a different set of Firefox attributes...

Hi, and thanks! :) I tried that, and sadly, it doesn't work. It turns out that the problem isn't the location of the pasting target. The copy doesn't end up capturing the text at all, and the paste buffer remains empty after the attempted copy. I can't even copy from the other-user-ID Safari...

Yes. I know that. I can also access Gmail via IMAP. However, this is not a suitable solution for me, because I want to access all of Gmail's features, not simply get a feed for the email. In addition, I've found that the IMAP and RSS access is slower and less reliable under Gmail. Furthermore...

I agree with your theory. After forcing my router to only use the G-level protocol, the problem started occurring with less frequency, but it's still happening. My guess is that there are fewer G-level broadcasters in my vicinity to interfere, so that the problem doesn't happen as often. .

I found a flaw in this different-user-ID approach. When I have a Safari instance running under another user ID, I can't copy and paste text from it to any program running under my current user ID. It seems like the paste buffer is somehow owned by the user who is running the program, not the...

Thank you. I was previously using IMAP access to Gmail, but it's a lot slower and less efficient than going directly to Gmail via a browser. Plus, I miss out on some of the features of Gmail this way. I just now tried this with Safari, and it works! Here's how I start up Safari using sudo...

But then again ... I think there's something to your idea. What if I create a few user ID's and log into Gmail with a different email address for each of these ID's? Then, under my main user ID, use sudo to start up Safari under a different one of these user ID's for each instance. When I go...

Oh well. Thanks for your reply! .

Is there any way to bring up multiple instances of Safari, each one with a completely independent cookie database? I have several Gmail accounts, and I want to simultaneously log in to all of them in different browser windows. However, since Safari manages a central cookie database, I can't...