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macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

#111
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> After copying a file, press ⌥⌘V to move the file instead of pasting a copy of it. This one is very cool

Coming from other OSes it's very dumb though, since ⌘X does not work for files (but it does for text! It's really confusing)

My thought exactly!

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

#113

All I want is an app that can fix the "broken window" focus management. Like when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app, and when an app (say, Finder) has no window open currently, bringing it to front also unaskedly manipulates the stacking order such that other app's windows become the top most one, completely destroying the visual context. Also, back in the days I used Expose a l…

I'll never get over the fact that I had to pay $8 just to have two windows split side-by-side without using the obtuse and intrusive fullscreen mode.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

#114
post #20

Love that this is straight to the point. My tips: - Use Alfred. Game changer. It's an immediate improvement on spotlight search, you can run commands with three keystrokes (rather than opening a terminal, just command + space, then > ), it gives clipboard history and fast append (lets you press command + c twice fast to append to clipboard, and opt + command + c to search clipboard history), and lets you make 'workfl…

One thing that’s been annoying me about desktop/window management is that whenever I’ve organized my windows that I need for one project on one desktop, I eventually need to upgrade vscode or warp or macOS needs to be updated. And then restarting an app it forgets on which desktop each window was running… I typically have 3-5 projects open that I switch between (and trying to organize them on different desktops has been sort of futile.)

Anyone know how to pin a window to a desktop so that it remembers this across restarts?

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

#115

When i first moved from Windows to MacOS i was shocked there was no default shortcut to start Apps from the Dock, like Windows Key +1, 2, 3 etc. (It is configurable though)

Ubuntu Unity had that first, way before Windows had morphed the task bar to something dock like.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

#117
Anyone know how to copy and paste without formatting into Outlook for Mac, without having to click the tiny dropdown box it creates when pasting formatted text? Outlook appears to have no setting for this and also ignores the key combination that works for most other apps…

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

#118

All I want is an app that can fix the "broken window" focus management. Like when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app, and when an app (say, Finder) has no window open currently, bringing it to front also unaskedly manipulates the stacking order such that other app's windows become the top most one, completely destroying the visual context. Also, back in the days I used Expose a l…

Yea I also hate that. If i have two terminals on two screens then click on one, all the terminals are now in the foreground and blocking the IDE/whatever…

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

#119
post #117

Anyone know how to copy and paste without formatting into Outlook for Mac, without having to click the tiny dropdown box it creates when pasting formatted text? Outlook appears to have no setting for this and also ignores the key combination that works for most other apps…

dont know whether that works on apple or not - but i just paste into an unformatted textbox (e.g. browser address bar) and copy again from there

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

#120

All I want is an app that can fix the "broken window" focus management. Like when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app, and when an app (say, Finder) has no window open currently, bringing it to front also unaskedly manipulates the stacking order such that other app's windows become the top most one, completely destroying the visual context. Also, back in the days I used Expose a l…

> when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app

https://imgur.com/a/mr1E2sW

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