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MrCrispyBacon said:
If you cant install Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 and you're stuck in a continuum looping

I've installed Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 on my macbook 5.1 with no problem
Im doing this method since 10.14.1 Beta 1 and I really hope it works for you too
In order to update and receive updates your Mojave Partition must to be AFPS
Download and install macOSPublicBetaAccessUtility.dmg or macOSDeveloperBetaAccessUtility.dmg...(Google it)
After installation gets finished it will be presented with MacOS beta in the Mac App Store.
Download, Install and Restart pressing ALT and choose the post-install tool drive from our friend dosdude1
Open Terminal and disable SIP.... csrutil disable and don't restart the machine
Open the "macOS Post Install" application, select your Mac model and immediately patches will be selected for you
click "Patch", select "Force Cache Rebuild" and click "Reboot"

Thanks dosdude1!
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If I understood correctly, you download and pre-install Mojave version update through the official "Software Update / AppStore" way, then after completed this phase-1, you reboot and before the "phase-2 installation" continues, you call the alt-option key booting from the USB Installer and applying the post-install patches with the (most important) "Force Cache Rebuild" targeting your Mojave APFS Volume (ready for the phase-2 installation).

So after that you reboot again and this time booting the Mojave APFS Volume the "phase-2 installation" will resume with your pre-post-install patches applied before.

That makes sense, someone did the same some posts earlier, and succeeded too, anyway your explanation is good.
 
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Kevbasscat said:
@telepati, I’d be very interested in how that works. I have the same machine.
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I really don't know how the hell this happened. My all auto updates open in preferences. But I didn't install directly with this installer. I used the first-page direction for the install and everything works better than I expected. Transparent doesn't work. I think @jackluke share a script about that I lost the page number without this everything working now.

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Edit: Ok found it the post. But @jackluke saying it's not removing notification and dock transparency but it's removed my all transparency. I don't get it.

macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread
 
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telepati said:
I really don't know how the hell this happened. My all auto updates open in preferences. But I didn't install directly with this installer. I used the first-page direction for the install and everything works better than I expected. Transparent doesn't work. I think @jackluke share a script about that I lost the page number without this everything working now.

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Edit: Ok found it the post. But @jackluke saying it's not removing notification and dock transparency but it's removed my all transparency. I don't get it.

macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread
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It works, just launch the script and type choice number 1, and dark mode will be all transparent again.

However try this other, just launch the applescript, press only "play" button to switch between a semi-transparent light mode and a full transparent dark mode: Applescript Hybrid transparency on the fly

After clicking the "play" button, simply open Finder on the dock, and you have to close all the previous opened app that inherited previous overlays to notice the current changes.

Update schemes on Mojave are changed that's why you have them in System Preferences / Appstore.
 
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MrCrispyBacon said:
If you cant install Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 and you're stuck in a continuum looping

I've installed Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 on my macbook 5.1 with no problem
Im doing this method since 10.14.1 Beta 1 and I really hope it works for you too
In order to update and receive updates your Mojave Partition must to be AFPS
Download and install macOSPublicBetaAccessUtility.dmg or macOSDeveloperBetaAccessUtility.dmg...(Google it)
After installation gets finished it will be presented with MacOS beta in the Mac App Store.
Download, Install Mojave update and your machine will restart
Press ALT and choose the post-install tool drive from our friend dosdude1
Open Terminal and disable SIP.... csrutil disable and don't restart the machine
Open the "macOS Post Install" application, select your Mac model and immediately patches will be selected for you
click "Patch", select "Force Cache Rebuild" and click "Reboot"

Thanks dosdude1!
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What is the actual terminal command for Open Terminal and disable SIP.... ?
 
joelw135 said:
What is the actual terminal command for Open Terminal and disable SIP.... ?
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csrutil status
csrutil disable
csrutil enable
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jackluke said:
It works, just launch the script and type choice number 1, and dark mode will be all transparent again.

However try this other, just launch the applescript, press only "play" button to switch between a semi-transparent light mode and a full transparent dark mode: Applescript Hybrid transparency on the fly

After clicking the "play" button, simply open Finder on the dock, and you have to close all the previous opened app that inherited previous overlays to notice the current changes.

Update schemes on Mojave are changed that's why you have them in System Preferences / Appstore.
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But this transparent script and command are not fix in app transparency, right? 'cause my firefox still look terrible.

Screen Shot 2018-10-20 at 17.01.53.png
 
MrCrispyBacon said:
If you can't install Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 and you're stuck in a continuum looping

I've installed Mojave Version 10.14.1 Beta 4 on my macbook 5.1 with no problem
Im doing this method since 10.14.1 Beta 1 and I really hope it works for you too
In order to update and receive updates your Mojave Partition must to be AFPS
Download and install macOSPublicBetaAccessUtility.dmg or macOSDeveloperBetaAccessUtility.dmg...(Google it)
After installation gets finished it will be presented with MacOS beta in the Mac App Store.
Download, Install Mojave update and your machine will restart
Press ALT and choose the post-install tool drive from our friend dosdude1
Open Terminal and disable SIP.... csrutil disable and don't restart the machine
Open the "macOS Post Install" application, select your Mac model and immediately patches will be selected for you
click "Patch", select "Force Cache Rebuild" and click "Reboot"

Thanks dosdude1!
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I have had SIP disabled when I updated. but still got the loop. Do you mean I have to do this everytime if I use the update utility?
 
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jackluke said:
They do, just close and re-open the app (Firefox) after applied the script.

The light mode one is only semi-transparent, however with scripts you obtain a light-grey instead of dark-grey, so more readable.
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Thank you. Last more question about this;

How to turn default settings? In the command tool there is an option for that but how to turn default from this script?
 
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telepati said:
Thank you. Last more question about this;

How to turn default settings? In the command tool there is an option for that but how to turn default from this script?
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Just type choice number 1 to return default

or manually through:

System Preferences -- Accessibility -- Display -- Reduce transparency (untick)
 
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For me the method provided by @MrCrispyBacon does not apply. I followed the method letter by letter and after cache rebuild and reboot it gets stuck at a Boot screen with the Apple Logo and the status bar half-way. Any ideas on how to get out of this?
 
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jackluke said:
Just type choice number 1 to return default

or manually through:

System Preferences -- Accessibility -- Display -- Reduce transparency (untick)
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I played with this code
Code: 
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

But I want to revert back and write -bool No I am lost my Firefox. I restart it but it doesnt changed.

Yes
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No

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telepati said:
I played with this code
Code: 
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

But I want to revert back and write -bool No I am lost my Firefox. I restart it but it doesnt changed.

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No

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I guess you have mixed up too features, you should re-download and re-install Firefox, before trashing your current Firefox, export your bookmarks, favorites and so on, then import them back into the fresh re-installed Firefox.


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Try this before re-install Firefox, from your Mojave Terminal in "dark mode", then reboot:

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Firefox NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance false

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joelw135 said:
For me the method provided by @MrCrispyBacon does not apply. I followed the method letter by letter and after cache rebuild and reboot it gets stuck at a Boot screen with the Apple Logo and the status bar half-way. Any ideas on how to get out of this?
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This broken 10.14.1 beta update is still a mystery for some C2D machines.
 
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jackluke said:
I guess you have mixed up too features, you should re-download and re-install Firefox, before trashing your current Firefox, export your bookmarks, favorites and so on, then import them back into the fresh re-installed Firefox.

edit:
Try this before re-install Firefox, from your Mojave Terminal in "dark mode", then reboot:

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Firefox NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance false
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Thank you. I used this and that is fixed.

Code: 
defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance

BTW, I stopped playing those 'cause I really mixed up everything :D

Thank you again you are really helped a lot. ;)
 
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I got a couple low budget EVGA GTX 650 cards in 1GB and 2GB Mini size. The EEPROM chip is the same size as the GTX 680. I’m looking for some ROM dumps of the 650M Mac Edition and I figured it would be the closest ROM to try to hack for the 650. The 650M I believe was used on some MacBookPro’s and iMacs.

The 650 supports Metal on Mojave and would be a very low cost solution for those simply wanting to run Mojave without artifacts and are not interested in doing anything high end. The clock speed however could be increased to help its performance on Mac.

If we can get successful ROMs for the 650, i’ll Be happy to share whatever the outcome is.
 
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joelw135 said:
For me the method provided by @MrCrispyBacon does not apply. I followed the method letter by letter and after cache rebuild and reboot it gets stuck at a Boot screen with the Apple Logo and the status bar half-way. Any ideas on how to get out of this?
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If you have an Intel Core Duo unsupported Mac as I do (MacBookPro5,3), try re-patching using @dosdude1's mojave post install and make sure you select "APFS Rom Patch" on the choices.

See my post #9127 where it worked for me.
macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

Good Luck.
 
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@jackluke

thank you for your help with night shift. Yes I tried the notification center button. I am now using f.lux. Works without problems. I want to try the recovery mode on my iMac when I find time. I read online that even supported macs lost night shift for some users. And recovery mode restored it. One problem seems to be the location settings preferences getting corrupted. So I can not say if it is the patch or macos...
 
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@dosdude1 Mojave runs all great on my beloved MacBookPro4,1 except two things that keep bothering me:

Trackpad 2-finger click (performing a right-click) doesn’t work. As an alternative I tried 2-finger tap which works, but I don’t like it that much, because at times it gets activated inadvertently, while fingers scoot over the trackpad. ;-)

Could it help to replace any keyboard/trackpad-related kext with that from El Capitan?

Should be interesting to find out how an external Apple trackpad would behave?!

The other somewhat annoying 'feature' is, that after every restart the keyboard backlight is turned back on. Setting it to 'off' in the Keyboard.prefPane seems to have no effect.

Not to forget: Thanks for all the great work, to keep our classic machines alive!
 
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