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Whats the best way to detect if a user is currently at their computer, ie using it in some way. We have an application that should only issue notifications (banner notifications with a close button) if the user is at their computer. For example, imagine a stock trading application that alerts the user to various time sensitive information that might be relevant for only a few minutes. If the user is away from their computer, they don't want to find 20 un-actioned alerts to dismiss. JanT Technicaly I don't know how to watch for inactivity but I think you could use timeout for notifications to

I'm trying to install octave on macos mountain lion via the following: sudo port install octave However, the result of this command is always the following: Error: Error: No valid Xcode installation is properly selected. Error: Please use xcode-select to select an Xcode installation: Error: sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer # version 4.4 Error: I've tried the suggested sudo xcode-select -switch command to no avail. The same error always occurs. Any ideas how to resolve this problem? Did you install xcode or just the command line tools? I installed just the

Okay, so I've completely given up. I've tried about a thousand different walkthroughs to solve my problem, on every website I can find, but I either get stuck and no one knows the answer, or they just don't work. So has anyone got an answer to installing PyGame onto Mountain Lion that they know 100% works and they can walk me through it as if I'm 6 years old? I just want to run PyGame and this is driving me insane. Cheers. BenDundee Ok, I'm running OSX 10.8.3 (Python 2.7.3), and I got pygame (1.9.1) up and running in about 15 minutes. Here's what I did. I brewed my Python a long time ago, so I

I have an issue where my app doesn't run on 10.6 Snow Leopard. I compile with these parameters: qmake LSPRO.pro -r -spec macx-clang CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=x86_64 in my Pro file, I have these elements: TEMPLATE = app HEADERS = \ mainwindow.h \ app_mediamanager.h \ api.h \ tool_htmleditor.h \ tool_videoencoder.h \ tool_thumbnaileditor.h SOURCES = \ main.cpp \ mainwindow.cpp \ app_mediamanager.cpp \ api.cpp \ tool_htmleditor.cpp \ tool_videoencoder.cpp \ tool_thumbnaileditor.cpp QT += network webkitwidgets widgets concurrent sql QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_X86_64 += -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 QMAKE_MACOSX

This question already has an answer here: Mountain Lion rvm install 1.8.7 x11 error 5 answers I had a fresh install of Mountain Lion and installed the Xcode Command Line Tools , . I was able to get homebrew running and installed RVM . Unfortunately, I can't get RVM to install ree-1.8.7-head . It fails when compiling. I thought it was related to X11, so I installed XQuartz . Still no joy. Then I went ahead and installed the full Xcode from the app store . Still no joy. Anyone gotten this going on a fresh Mountain Lion install? From the bottom of the .rvm/log/ree-1.8.7-head/make.log : Find Tcl

I upgraded rvm to 1.15.8, then went back down to 1.15.7 after having some problems in zsh. After downgrading, my Ruby 1.9+ versions went back in fine, but 1.8.7 won't install again. There are two errors that are occurring: Error running 'patch -F 25 -p1 -N -f <"/Users/me/.rvm/patches/ruby/1.8.7/stdout-rouge-fix.patch"', please read /Users/me/.rvm/log/ruby-1.8.7-p352/patch.apply.stdout-rouge-fix.log The contents of that file are: [2012-09-11 01:05:59] patch -F 25 -p1 -N -f <"/Users/me/.rvm/patches/ruby/1.8.7/stdout-rouge-fix.patch" patching file lib/mkmf.rb Hunk #1 FAILED at 201. 1 out of 1