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Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by saagarjha » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 5:37 AM UTC

catmistake wrote: post #132

talentedcoin wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed 100%. No idea why homebrew is so dominant while doing the wrong thing by default. Binaries are nice but not worth the trouble Homebrew gives compared to sane, rational MacPorts.

While Homebrew defaults to binary, it can build from source, though it tends to leave behind a bloody mess when it does. MacPorts has excellent housekeeping, which is controlled through port command arguments. One can choose to leave everything from the entire build, or have everything cleaned up as it builds, or clean it up after the build. Showing and eliminating leaves is also pretty simple. Uninstalling MacPorts…

You may wish to follow the official instructions, which will also remove users that MacPorts creates: https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.unins...

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by tagawa » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 5:38 AM UTC

Can anyone explain what a backtick is please?

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by mindfulhack » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 5:38 AM UTC

My tip:

Make your Cmd-Tab do everything you've ever wanted it to do that it currently can't:

https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by mikeklaas » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 5:40 AM UTC

tagawa wrote: post #172

Can anyone explain what a backtick is please?

It's the key beside "1", namely "`"

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by mindfulhack » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 5:48 AM UTC

ladberg wrote: post #103

I'll add one of my favorite ones: you can do Option-Command-C to copy the path of a file to the clipboard (if you need to use it somewhere that doesn't support dragging to paste a path).

This just made me able to de-bloat my macOS by removing the 'PathSnagger 2' app from my system! Thank you! :)

To add to this marvellous shortcut I will now be using very frequently:

Right click on the file in finder, then hold the Option key and you'll see the copy command change from "Copy [file]" to "Copy [file] as Pathname".

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by mindfulhack » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 5:53 AM UTC

dwighttk wrote: post #72

Two apps he didn’t include that I like: Levelator (free): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-levelator/id1493326487?mt=... LaunchBar (alternative to Alfred, free trial): https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

Side comment: anyone else feel like an app that only is in the MAS is lower quality for some reason? Apps in that quality seem to have a high ratio of junkware. This one looks good though, just giving my reaction to even seeing a MAS link. It's interesting how IMO macOS really doesn't need an app store. It's different.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by thomasdd » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 5:54 AM UTC

in Finder, when you cusomize the toolbar(icons), yo can Drag-Drop, Folders, Files or Applications into the toolbar!

that's what I discovered lately, as cool feature.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by JonathonW » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 6:35 AM UTC

jshier wrote: post #167

xenadu02 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First: binaries that ship with the system are not included in this because they're platform binaries. Tools like ps or grep won't be included. Second: once the binary has been checked for malware it won't be checked again. Third: if the connection fails immediately the malware check is skipped immediately. So if you are offline or otherwise force the relevant server DNS names to be rejected immediately it shouldn't w…

On your last point, would that include the jenkins-agent.jar file? If so, is there a way to dynamically add it? We download our agent jars on boot which I'm pretty sure would replace the preview permission, so it'd be great to add it after download.

The Developer Tool permission excludes a process's child processes from scanning, not the process itself, so you'd have to add whatever launches the Jenkins agent, not the agent JAR itself. That's probably either ssh or launchd; adding a blanket exception to either of those is probably undesirable (if macOS will let you do it at all).

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by tagawa » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 6:50 AM UTC

mikeklaas wrote: post #174

tagawa wrote: post #172

Can anyone explain what a backtick is please?

It's the key beside "1", namely "`"

Ah, thank you. It's in a different position on my keyboard (Japanese) but now I know what it's called.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by eric-hu » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 6:56 AM UTC

extra88 wrote: post #160

eric-hu wrote: post #157

Does anyone know of a way to enable keyboard control of menus on Touch Bar MacBooks? There’s the keyboard preference which I have enabled, but it doesn’t behave the same as my non Touch Bar MacBook. I can keyboard-interact with confirmation dialogs on my 2012 MacBook to hit Ok or Cancel. On my 2019, I must use the trackpad or the Touch Bar. I’ve been googling for a fix or even a bug report but it’s a surprisingly har…

Do you mean “Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls?” That’s in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts.

That’s what I have enabled. That setting behaves differently between Touch Bar and non Touch Bar macs. On non Touch Bar Macs, you can hit space or enter to interact with a pop up dialog. On Touch Bar Macs, the tab key skips over certain UI elements as if they don’t exist. “Conveniently”, those elements are on the Touch Bar.