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Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by m463 »

hardwaregeek wrote: post #41

Having emacs commands by default on native apps is a really nice detail. It's nearly impossible to do on Windows since there's already a bunch of shortcuts using control. On Linux it's definitely doable but you have to install a keyboard shortcuts app, get an emacs profile, etc. If only reddit didn't use C-b to insert bold text, it'd make navigating in text boxes a lot easier.

If firefox had a setting, maybe per-site, to prevent text boxes from "helpful" editing key overrides it would be wonderful.

I have to use a web application that uses CKEditor for text boxes.

And just like you - the most annoying thing in the world - j I get: control-b is bold instead of back one character (one of my most commonly used keystrokes)

The other annoying one is control-k pops up a link dialog.

I tried to figure out how to override or disable it, but never got very far.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by johnwalkr »

rgovostes wrote: post #16
scarlac wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few tips for Spotlight that made me stop using apps like Quicksilver and Alfred: 1. Typing something and pressing CMD+B will open a browser and do a Google search for that 2. Typing math works now 3. You can change your Spotlight preferences to not include files you don't wanna search on, essentially always showing apps (if you just want it do be an app launcher) Alfred does a lot more than this, but for me these w…

Spotlight’s math support is very rudimentary. I think I even found a bug in it recently trying to use “1e9” scientific notation. I’ve found Google has the best calculator feature, which supports complex unit-aware inputs like “6 gigabytes / (7.1 mb/sec)”. Even Wolfram Alpha seems to get confused with some simple inputs.

I reach for my physical calculator that is always with me. Seems weird as it's less convenient that using spotlight in the moment and larger than my iphone 11. Just never got out of the habit.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by derefr »

missing_paren wrote: post #83
derefr wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the Control Center’s “windows of active application” view is what you’re looking for. Hit Ctrl+Down. It’s keyboard-navigable!

Can that be remapped to cmd+backtick perhaps?

Yes, but I don’t think you’d want that, as the navigation after that wouldn’t be the same (you don’t press Down again to move between windows and then let go of Ctrl to select; rather, you let go of Ctrl, move between windows with the arrow keys, then press Enter to select.) Better to keep the two muscle-memories separate.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by mdaniel »

catmistake wrote: post #75

I recommend macports package management system, similar in function to BSD ports collection. Superior to Homebrew, the johnny-come-lately PMS with all the penguinista-style hype that seems to lean towards binary installs, unlike roll your own from all source in macports. Homebrew also does not honor the default privileges of /usr/local, which is an annoying security flaw.

While it does default to binaries, it accepts a build-from-source option

I haven't been involved with macports recently enough to compare, but one advantage of Homebrew's popularity is the depth of package specifications and how quickly they're updated

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by _qulr »

luizfelberti wrote: post #77

Does anyone have a tip to keep macOS from phoning home when you run unsigned binaries? I almost locked up my entire computer this week, presumably because of this... here's the story for that: I had setup unbound listening on 127.0.0.1:53 as the only DNS resolver for all network interfaces, so that I hijack several responses that I might want to (e.g. adnet sinkholes) and forward the rest to Google/Cloudflare over TL…

> Does anyone have a tip to keep macOS from phoning home when you run unsigned binaries?

Block the syspolicyd process with Little Snitch.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by dschuessler »

spurgu wrote: post #82
dschuessler wrote: post #69

To add some shortcuts that I use regularly but don't appear on the list: - Ctrl+Cmd+Space brings up a Unicode-Char-Picker - Shift+Alt+Cmd+V pastes from your clipboard without formatting from the source - Shift+Fn+Ctrl+Power shuts off the display

For shutting off the display (locking) I use Shift+Ctrl+Power (not Fn). Or are the two somehow different?

I believe you are right. Shift+Ctrl+Power shuts off the display and it does so more reliably than Shift+Fn+Ctrl+Power. I guess I memorized it wrong.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by torarnv »

saagarjha wrote: post #49
newsbinator wrote: post #8

Spotify flashes non-stop (the left sidebar and the bottom control strip, but interestingly not the main app window). > Quartz Debug: There are some apps that reduce your battery life in an insidious way where it doesn’t show as CPU usage for their process but as increased WindowServer CPU usage. If your WindowServer process CPU usage is above maybe 6-10% when you’re not doing anything, some app in the background is p…

If you're using Quartz Debug, you probably want to set these as well: defaults write com.apple.QuartzDebug QuartzDebugPrivateInterface -bool YES defaults write com.apple.QuartzDebug QDDockShowFramemeterHistory -bool YES defaults write com.apple.QuartzDebug QDDockShowNumericalFps -bool YES defaults write com.apple.QuartzDebug QDShowWindowInfoOnMouseOver -bool YES The first one lets the window list work, which Apple in…

Thank you!
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