[X Newbies] ooooh!

[Alex]

On Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 10:06 Canada/Eastern, matblack at mac.com 
wrote:

> [...] a little app called FNSWITCH [...] I cannot seem to find the 
> last of three installed components to delete [...]
>
> The problem is that the last item AppleADBKeyboard.kext is owned by 
> root, cannot be trashed[...]

"Cannot seem to find" or "can't trash because it's owned by root"? 
Different kettles of fish.

> [...] The software are installed in the following places:[...]

That seems pretty clear -- what's the problem, aren't the items where 
the author says they should be?

> rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/fnSwitch.prefPane/

Deletes the prefpane.

> rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/fnStartup/

Deletes the startup item.

> cd /System/Library/Extensions
> touch .
> mv AppleADBKeyboard.kext /Users/Shared/AppleADBKeyboard_fnSwtich.kext

(Typo here, I guess -- should be _fnSwitch.)

> cp -r /Users/Shared/AppleADBKeyboard<timestamp>.kext 
> ./AppleADBKeyboard.kext
> or
> cp -r /Users/Shared/AppleADBKeyboard.kext ./AppleADBKeyboard.kext

It looks like the fnSwitch installer moves Apple's kext to 
/Users/Shared/ as a backup, and replaces it with its own. These lines 
reverse the procedure: the move the fnSwitch-installed kext to 
/Users/Shared/ under a different name (so as not to replace Apple's), 
then brings back the original kext to its location.

It also looks like the developer assumed you'd be logged in as root. 
That's easily solved: precede the commands with sudo, as in

$sudo mv AppleADBKeyboard.kext 
/Users/Shared/AppleADBKeyboard_fnSwitch.kext

For details on sudo

$man sudo

If you prefer a GUI method, select AppleADBKeyboard.kext in Finder, do 
a Get Info, and change its ownership, move it where it should go, then 
change again its ownership.

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