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Post by isodev »

mrtksn wrote: post #202
tristanb wrote: post #197

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That looks a little frustrating. I wonder if there is a way around it?

It's especially frustrating since you always stumble upon it when you have something else in mind, this your flow is broken to re-confirm something you did a month ago. I'm not aware of a fix, hopefully more people will write a feedback about it.

Does it mean macOS will periodically ask me again and again that Teams/Zoom/etc need screen recording permissions? As if I didn’t have enough pop-ups and prompts in my life already

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Post by benbristow »

windowsrookie wrote: post #207
benbristow wrote: post #177

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Nice that it can still be supported. Couldn't go back to Intel though personally!

I have an M1 Air 8GB and a 2018 MBP 16GB. Performance feels about the same until the Air hits swap, then the old Intel MBP still outperforms the M1 Air.

One you could probably fry bacon on whilst the battery drains in an hour...

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by addandsubtract »

modeless wrote: post #3

Window tiling! If you drag a single window to the top does it maximize, and unmaximize when you drag it away? That's been my most wanted feature in macOS since forever (yes I have tried the third party ones). I don't really care about tiling multiple windows, but I've always hated the macOS full screen behavior, and before that the old green button behavior, so an alternative that finally works well (the way Windows…

BetterTouchTool has a window tiler built in, too.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by justincormack »

xhkkffbf wrote: post #203
benbristow wrote: post #171

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Windows 7 only had that since 2009... better late than never I suppose!

Didn't the original Windows 1 put all of the windows in tiles? Here's an image from a history: https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/06/22/history-...

Because Apple had a patent on overlapping AFAIK.

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Post by tivert »

jwells89 wrote: post #192
JoBrad wrote: post #144

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I never understood the enter for rename shortcut. People open (or "execute", which is the general understanding of the action for the "enter" key) files far more than they rename them.

It makes sense if one considers the angle of how single-key shortcuts are much more disaster-prone. For example, if the user has a large number of files selected and accidentally triggers the open shortcut by hitting enter, their computer is going to be stuck spinning its wheels for a while (the more files involved and the heavier the applications they open in, the worse it'll be) unless they force restart. Involving…

> It makes sense if one considers the angle of how single-key shortcuts are much more disaster-prone.

> ...

> Most Mac shortcuts seem to follow this, with those that are single-key by default doing relatively harmless and easily reversible things.

The enter-to-rename behavior has been in Mac OS since near the beginning, when versions were just named something like "System N.M").

IIRC, I've heard they had very detailed UI design documents back then, that explained their choices (e.g. I've heard they explained the reason for the menu bar being at the top of the screen rather than the top of a window was the cursor will just stop there, requiring less mousing precision).

So if that's the case, there should be documents confirming or denying your speculation.

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Post by dkga »

jwells89 wrote: post #192
JoBrad wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never understood the enter for rename shortcut. People open (or "execute", which is the general understanding of the action for the "enter" key) files far more than they rename them.

It makes sense if one considers the angle of how single-key shortcuts are much more disaster-prone. For example, if the user has a large number of files selected and accidentally triggers the open shortcut by hitting enter, their computer is going to be stuck spinning its wheels for a while (the more files involved and the heavier the applications they open in, the worse it'll be) unless they force restart. Involving…

Thank you, now I finally understand why the difference between "enter" and cmd+O!

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by lostmsu »

sunny_sigara wrote: post #209

Most annoying problems so far.. 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? 2. No more sudo spctl —master-disable. Alternative way is bit complicated. 2. No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper. 3. Why tcutil reset Accessibility not working for a specific app? It works for “All” . 4. Script to convert NSURL node ref url to posix url not working. 5. Normal usb Mouse pointer acceleration is not smooth. May be…

Screen recording breaks remote access apps

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by mrtksn »

isodev wrote: post #211
mrtksn wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's especially frustrating since you always stumble upon it when you have something else in mind, this your flow is broken to re-confirm something you did a month ago. I'm not aware of a fix, hopefully more people will write a feedback about it.

Does it mean macOS will periodically ask me again and again that Teams/Zoom/etc need screen recording permissions? As if I didn’t have enough pop-ups and prompts in my life already

I think that's the case. It's doing it for Shottr(screenshots app) and Ice(toolbar management app), the two apps I regularly use and require that permission.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by Hamuko »

sunny_sigara wrote: post #209

Most annoying problems so far.. 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? 2. No more sudo spctl —master-disable. Alternative way is bit complicated. 2. No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper. 3. Why tcutil reset Accessibility not working for a specific app? It works for “All” . 4. Script to convert NSURL node ref url to posix url not working. 5. Normal usb Mouse pointer acceleration is not smooth. May be…

Apple locking down the OS even more by making Gatekeeper harder to bypass makes me want to skip this version for as long as possible.

The screen recording permission thing also doesn't help since I'm using Ice (https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice) because somehow Apple still can't Sherlock this feature.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by jonhohle »

kccqzy wrote: post #136
trvr wrote: post #5

I am usually slow to upgrade but I jumped on this and iOS 18 immediately because of "iPhone Mirroring". I've only had it for a few minutes, but it's really nice!

Can you elaborate on why it's nice? How do I do multi-touch gestures with a single cursor? Is the main benefit be able to use iPhone apps on a bigger screen? Can iPhone apps display more content (maybe let the app pretend it's being displayed on an iPad or at least a larger screen than the physical screen size)?

At least in Sonoma, Screen Time requests crash Messages, fail to work properly on iPadOS, but work fine on iPhone. Now I can approve requests without having to dig my phone out my pocket. A small convenience, but I can’t expect them to fix Screen Time on macOS any time soon.
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