[OS X TeX] New distribution

juan tolosa juantolo at me.com
Thu May 10 22:48:33 EDT 2018


Herb,
My TeX icons disappeared long ago, in one of the many updates (I would say, about five years ago). I didn’t give it much thought, since this is a secondary issue. However, I decided to try your advice, only I didn’t get anything remotely similar to 
> kMDItemContentType                     = “edu.uo.texshop.tex”
I got lots of “no job control” lines instead.

I must say, I don’t use the terminal practically ever (my knowledge of working with terminal is close to zero).
Best,
Juan

> On May 10, 2018, at 3:56 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> On May 10, 2018, at 1:30 PM, gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My new distribution works fine (thanks to all), but the TeX icons became generic.
>> 
>> ??
>> 
>> My fault?
>> 
>> GG
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Sigh... here we go again.
> 
> I assume you mean that what used to be a TeXShop document icon is now a generic icon.
> 
> First, please open the Terminal application and type
> 
> mdls
> 
> with a space after the `s'. Then drag and drop one of the files with a generic icon onto the Terminal window and press Return. Look for an item called kMDItemContentType and let me know what it is set to. For normal icons I get
> 
> kMDItemContentType                     = "edu.uo.texshop.tex"
> 
> (there's lots of other output).
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
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