Brian Pratt's Homepage

• 1: Welcome
  • 1.1: About Me
• 2: Projects
  • 2.1: Software
    • 2.1.1: Web Cloner
    • 2.1.2: Chess
    • 2.1.3: RCS
  • 2.2: RTOS
  • 2.3: Senior Project
  • 2.4: LANL Internship
  • 2.5: DES Cracker
  • 2.6: Digital Comm
• 3: Research
  • 3.1: FPGAs in Space
  • 3.2: SEU Mitigation
  • 3.3: Partial TMR
  • 3.4: Digital Comm
• 4: Docs
  • 4.1: Linux
  • 4.2: Mac OS X
  • 4.3: Other
• 5: Software
  • 5.1: Geolocator.app
  • 5.2: Awesome Ball
  • 5.3: AccSim
  • 5.4: Roomote
• 6: Resume
• 7: Contact

Mac OS X

X11

Here are various quirks to remember about OS X's X11 app.

Using Matlab over SSH

I noticed when I got my Intel iMac with OS X Tiger that I could no longer use Matlab over SSH. I was using the command

ssh -X brian@schoolcomputer.ee.byu.edu

which works on my G3 iBook running Panther. I searched around online a bit and found I was not the only one with this problem. The solution is to use the '-Y' option instead of '-X':

ssh -Y brian@schoolcomputer.ee.byu.edu'

This command gives X-forwarding but with "more privileges." Apparently '-X' is more secure, but at least I get more than blank windows with the "insecure" option!

Mouse Clicks

I have an Apple Mighty Mouse, which gives me a right mouse button, but the middle mouse button is taken up by the shortcut to Dashboard (which I really like and don't want to re-assign). So here's how to do that special clicking with only a single-button mouse:

Right-click:   control + (left) mouse button

Middle-click:  command (apple) + (left) mouse button

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