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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) OSX/Unix problem Post 38906 by der Kopf on Wednesday 30th of July 2003 05:51:21 AM
Old 07-30-2003
The solution to your problem might (or will) be the deletion of the .ds_store file that resides in the desktop folder. (.DS_Store being the -imo- rotten little files MacOS X uses to store various settings, such as preferred view, position of elements in that view, for a specific folder).

The command:

rm ~/desktop/.DS_Store

No sudo needed. It couldn't be easier. This should work, imo. Your problem very much looks to be one where there is no file, yet someone still thinks and acts as though there is (the .DS_Store). Also, deleting this file will not result in any damage to your file system. You may need to reset some of your settings (for the desktop alone), but that will be all.
 

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TWINWAVE(1)						Simulation Wave Viewer Multiplexer					       TWINWAVE(1)

NAME
twinwave - Wraps multiple GTKWave sessions in one window SYNTAX
twinwave <arglist1> + <arglist2> DESCRIPTION
Wraps multiple GTKWave sessions in one window with synchronized markers, horizontal scrolling, and zooming. EXAMPLES
To run this program the standard way type: twinwave filename1.vcd filename1.sav + filename2.vcd filename2.sav Two viewers are then opened in one window. LIMITATIONS
twinwave uses the GtkSocket/GtkPlug mechanism to embed two gtkwave(1) sessions into one window. The amount of coupling is currently lim- ited to communication of temporal information. Other than that, the two gtkwave processes are isolated from each other as if the viewers were spawned separately. Keep in mind that using the same save file for each session may cause unintended behavior problems if the save file is written back to disk: only the session written last will be saved. (i.e., the save file isn't cloned and made unique to each ses- sion.) Note that twinwave compiled against Quartz (not X11) on OSX does not place both sessions in a single window. AUTHORS
Anthony Bybell <bybell@rocketmail.com> SEE ALSO
gtkwave(1) Anthony Bybell 3.3.28 TWINWAVE(1)
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