Wow, my thread's basically met celebrity status! Well, regarding HyperSpaces, just a few ideas:ġ) I know you've probably heard this again, and again, but eveeeeeeeeeeeryone and their mum wants cube transitions. Also, if anyone sees this, and happens to know a website they can recommend for learning basic navigation, file manipulation, etc., in UNIX, I'd love a link! In fact, I've learned a lot by messing up my computer (isn't that how it always works?). I saw the developer stated he wanted to implement a lot of VirtueDesktop into HyperSpace's final release, but it doesn't look like he had time :/ Let's just say that I'm anxiously awaiting 2.0.Īll done! Thanks to BobHarris for stopping me from going overboard (BONUS: now I have an idea of what the chmod command is for 😀 ). It's great for augmenting Spaces (which I think a lot of us were disappointed with virtual desktops in Linux have felt more functional and intuitive for pretty much the past decade), but it doesn't have VirtueDeskop's eye candy or ability to map desktop switching to, frankly, silly things. It's a solid program, but it lacks a lot of the functionality that VirtueDesktop had. After all, my track record today isn't too good ><Īlso, not to get off topic, but regarding HyperSpace: So, presumably the problem is with permissions? I was thinking that accessing root would remedy the problem (single-user wouldn't work for this, right?), but iTunes is importing my library atm (fresh system install), so since I have a few hours before I can restart, I figured I would run this by you guys first. More random forums (we never learn, right?) tell me that I should have luck with:Ĭhmod: Unable to change file mode on /etc/sudoers: Operation not permitted Sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0666, should be 0440 I retried with a source editor called Komodo, which gave me a "force save" option that worked. TextEdit wouldn't let me save it, even with the updated permissions, but I found I could move the file, delete the file, etc., so I figured it was TextEdit's own hangup. Thanks for the help! Actually, editing the sudoers file wasn't too bad. Hyperspaces that works with Spaces and should do what you want. It seems as though the original author of VirtueDesktops now has a program called Put the permissions back the way you found them. Change the access for "Everyone" to "Read and Write". Select "sudoers" and do "Get Info" in the Finder. You will probably have to navigate to /private/etc using the Finder (type Shift ⌘ G to get there). To fix your sudoers file, just edit /private/etc/sudoers and remove that last line. You would probably want to do "sudo bash" and that would give you a shell as the root user. Apparently, whomever posted that to the OSX86 forums didn't know what they were doing.
#Hyperspaces mac code#
The code was posted to the OSX86 forums, and was:Ĭhmod 755 /Applications/VirtueDesktops.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtueDesktopsĮcho "%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /Applications/VirtueDesktops.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtueDesktops" > /private/etc/sudoersĪ little knowledge is a dangerous thing. VirtueDesktops is a pre-10.5 Spaces-like virtual desktop manager, with cool features and iCandy that I must have, not for functionality, just because I'm a dangerous mix of superficial and OCD.
I was trying to fix VirtueDesktops for 10.5 (to see if the posted 10.5 fix would work for 10.6, of course). I presume this means that I need to go into said file and fix something, but because of the fear that sudo inspires (let's call it "sudo stigma"), I'd really appreciate it if somebody could tell me the right thing to do 🙂 I would be far more interested in seeing what your sudoers file now looks like than the error output. I'll go ahead and place the error output here (as I think that's all that's really needed to know to fix this), but the stuff I was trying to run is also below. Hello all! I broke my sudo! I'm sure that all the fun topics on these forums start with "Well, I saw these lines of code on a forum somewhere." and this one does too.
#Hyperspaces mac how to#
I didn't realize that there's a UNIX forum, and I can't figure out how to delete posts on these forums for the life of me. Note: This is currently crossposted in Using 10.6 please forgive me.
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