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Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by gauchojs » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

maximilianroos wrote: post #207

mindfulhack wrote: post #188

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A new app 'AltTab' has fast overtaken Contexts as a much loved alternative: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos

I just checked it out, thanks for the link. This shows promise! But I don't really need the images of the windows, a list is much more efficient than a 5x3 grid of large images. And the quick switch esc+key is sorely missed. I'll keep an eye on it though, thanks again for the rec.

I was just thinking how the app icon is more than enough to identify each window and thumnails don't make sense to me. You can disable thumbnails in the configuration.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by dwighttk » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 12:08 PM UTC

mindfulhack wrote: post #176

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.

I usually don’t use the App Store unless it is the only option

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by gauchojs » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 12:11 PM UTC

mindfulhack wrote: post #173

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

Tried now and the .5s delay that happens sometimes already kills this for me...

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by hibbelig » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 12:13 PM UTC

phodo wrote: post #216

hibbelig wrote: post #43

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After cmd-shift-4 and space, a simple copies the window with its shadow. Some modified allows to copy just the window. But I forgot which modifier.

Is there a way to make it NOT make that camera shutter sound when you do the screenshot ?

In System Preferences, under Sound, select the tab Sound Effects. There is a checkbox to play user interface sound effects.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by djKianoosh » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 1:52 PM UTC

Is there a setting to tell Mac OS to follow the mouse for focus, and optionally activate (bring to foreground) the window under the cursor (after say, a 300ms delay) ?

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by t0rst » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

Cmd-tab extras:

- before releasing the command key and in between tabbing you can type H to hide/show and Q to quit the currently highlighted app. Note that quitting is often slow - can take a while for app’s icon to disappear.

- with shift to reverse direction

- you can start a drag, then use Cmd-tab to switch to your destination app, and then drop

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by pragmaticpandy » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

Has anyone done or know of anyone who has done a third party security review of Karbiner-elements?

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by arvinsim » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 5:31 AM UTC

cawlin wrote: post #213

arvinsim wrote: post #194

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> * Clipboard history (screenshots on clipboard in the history is extra useful) Are you fine that Alfred can read the clipboard? > * Workflow for opening Jira tickets in my browser quickly Yes! Navigating JIRA is much easier with Alfred.

> Are you fine that Alfred can read the clipboard? Yes, the data is not sent anywhere.

Got it. I just activated this feature in my Mac :)

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by eric-hu » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 3:08 PM UTC

addandsubtract wrote: post #191

eric-hu wrote: post #180

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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.

I'm not sure if this solves your problem, because I'm still on a non-TB Mac, but you can use CMD + [first letter] to select dialog options. For example, if you're closing an app and are asked if you want to save an open file, the dialog might have "Yes" preselected, but also let you choose "Don't save". If you hit CMD + D it will choose the "Don't save" option. Same thing for something that might say "All files" you…

I just took some time to try this and it didn’t work. I think the Touch Bar acts as another device and UI prompts get forwarded to them. Thank you for the suggestion though.

Re: Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 9:55 AM UTC

dundercoder wrote: post #147

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #135

Weird. No DefaultFolderX. That is an awesome tool. Also no Little Snitch. I have had problems with iStat Menu. I really want it to work, but it always introduces random crashes into my system. Every couple of years, I try it again, but it hasn’t stabilized yet.

FWIW iStat menus has been working flawlessly for me for months.

Nope. Still causing problems.

It's messing with my displays (I use an eGPU and an LG Ultrawide 49-incher), and I am getting more crashes than usual.

It's def iStat Menus. When I removed it, all the issues stopped.