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macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by Dagonfly »

notpushkin wrote: post #72

> Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app's menu items. Then use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to execute that menu bar action. Kinda like command palette for every app, I like it. Would be even better if it preselected the matching option. Unfortunately, this is broken in Firefox – they’ve bound ⌘ ? to their help page, and it opens then immediately closes the Help menu. You can r…

I've never gotten this to work on an ISO-keyboard (chunky enter key). It opens "Help" in every single app, even Apple's like Finder or Safari. I've tried GB, German, US-International, and my default EurKey layout. None of them work. This shortcut always felt like an Alt+F4 prank to me.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by xrisk »

wlesieutre wrote: post #63
gluteart wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lived with Alfred for many-many years, but Raycast seems much better this days. Simpler yet richer and constantly developed, many plugins, it's simple to do your own and... it has window manager

Is Raycast open source at all? With nearly $50M of funding (most recently $30M series B last fall) I have to wonder about the long term sustainability and whether I want to invest my time and workflows into the whims of a VC backed “free forever” plan. Alfred has been around for ages and I’m reasonably confident the developers aren’t going to screw me.

It’s positively comedic that Bluesky, an entire large social network has taken less funding ($36M according to [1]) compared to Raycast (… an application launcher).

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bluesky-514d#financi...

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by kernel-panics »

matthew-wegner wrote: post #200
johncoltrane wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> launching a terminal at a location Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder. > viewing or copying a files path Right-click on directory or file and press Option > Copy " " as path name. > navigating a deep file system Not sure what you mean. > column width in the column view Option + click & Drag. Or do you want them to adjust to files/folders name length? > searching for files What's wrong with…

> Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder. Note that you can also bind a hotkey to this! And in general in macOS, you can a bind to a hotkey to any menu item in any application. Search "keyboard shortcuts" in settings, then under Services -> Files and Folders.

To add to this:

cdf: aliased to cd "$(pfd)"

Doesn't really open a new Terminal, but usually, that's not what I want to happen anyway.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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mherrmann wrote: post #67

My favorites: To quickly find text, select some text and press ⌘E followed by ⌘G. In save dialogs, press ⌘= to switch between the compact and expanded layout. In save dialogs, press ~ to open a Go To File dialog prefilled with the home directory. Press / to open it prefilled with the root directory. Hold Option while opening the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth menus to access extra options. After copying a file, press ⌥⌘V to mov…

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Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by akrz »

Philpax wrote: post #5

Does anyone have any advice for making the most of the Dock? I find it pretty unhelpful coming from an older Windows / Linux background: I just want easy access to the windows that are open on my current workspace on my current monitor, and it seems ill-suited to that. I usually have it on auto-hide because it takes up space without providing much value. I'm aware that I can do the three finger swipe to look at all o…

https://contexts.co/ is the best alt+tab switcher I've ever used and it also provides a taskbar like you want.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by madeofpalk »

reddalo wrote: post #145
danielvaughn wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just want a Finder that actually works. It’s pretty incredible just how bad Finder is. It’s by far the worst piece of software I’m forced to use on a daily basis.

I honestly think that Explorer on Windows 11 is way worse than Finder. But I'd love a FilePilot [1] for macOS... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091466

For the shit people give Finder, it's astonishing how bad Explorer is.

I miss Finder's tree view in Explorer so much.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by donbrae »

One of my favourite tips is to hold down Command while dragging important apps, files and folders to the Finder toolbar in order to ‘pin’ them. You can then drag files to ‘Open in…’ (eg, images to ImageOptim) or just launch apps.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by madeofpalk »

Dagonfly wrote: post #211
notpushkin wrote: post #72

> Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app's menu items. Then use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to execute that menu bar action. Kinda like command palette for every app, I like it. Would be even better if it preselected the matching option. Unfortunately, this is broken in Firefox – they’ve bound ⌘ ? to their help page, and it opens then immediately closes the Help menu. You can r…

I've never gotten this to work on an ISO-keyboard (chunky enter key). It opens "Help" in every single app, even Apple's like Finder or Safari. I've tried GB, German, US-International, and my default EurKey layout. None of them work. This shortcut always felt like an Alt+F4 prank to me.

The help menu is what searches all menu items.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by [deleted] »

tgv wrote: post #133
tannhaeuser wrote: post #108

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 I don't have that, and I can't remember having done anything to stop it.

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Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by frereubu »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #108

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

Do you mean Cmd + Tab? Because this doesn't happen for me at all. When I click on a window, just that window is focused, but if I Alt + Tab to an app all those windows come to the front, which I find annoying too.

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