Terminal's properties list modified

[kaz219]

Here is one strange bug that exists on ffmpegX since a long time now (at least 2 years, I would say). It is not a very annoying bug, and I know how to solve it, at least temporary.

Symptoms:
you get something like this everytime you open a terminal window:

Last login: Sun Nov 13 11:16:06 on ttyp2
/Applications/video/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/pbpaste | sh
Welcome to Darwin!
powerBook:~ kaz$ /Applications/video/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/pbpaste | sh
sh: line 1: metallify: command not found

Here, "metallify" is the last item I have in my clipboard. Should be different on your computer.

Solution: open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist with the "property list editor" (default).
Scroll down until you find "execution string: ". You'll see on this line the "/Applications/video/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/pbpaste | sh" line.
Select the line, and click the "delete" button at the top of the window. Quit&Save "property list editor". Done.

I have no idea if it's really a ffmpegX bug, or just an os x bug exposed by ffmpegX. This post is more about the solution, that took me a one hour grep to find it out, because I had forgotten again the solution...

cheers,
kaz

[major]

It is not a ffmpegX bug, it is probably the result of hitting some Terminal shortcut to save the last command as default or something. I think this can be possibly cured within Terminal preferences.

[kaz219]

Correct.

When a terminal window is opened and a mencoder, x264, ffmpeg etc... process is running in it, and you go to the Terminal->Window Settings... Menu, and tell it to "Use Settings as Default", then the execution string of ffmpegX is also saved to the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist ans all the next window from the terminal will try to execute this string at opening.

To remove it, just open the plist file with "Property List Editor", click the little triangle next to "Root", and scroll down to "execution string", select it, and click "delete". Command-S to save, and exit. Done.

Regards,