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My tip: System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Screen Saver -> Hot Corners -> Bottom Left Corner (or whichever you prefer) -> Put Display To Sleep (or Lock Screen if you prefer).
Adding caveat : Keep the dock size small to avoid interfering with Hot Corners and if you use VM in seamless mode try not to place any action(VM guest panel) near the macOS Hot Corners.
My tip: System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Screen Saver -> Hot Corners -> Bottom Left Corner (or whichever you prefer) -> Put Display To Sleep (or Lock Screen if you prefer).
I have a macbook which I partitioned and installed windows on. the macbook is in a drawer in a stand up desk. The desk has a terrible ergonomic design. So I ended up using the pullout drawer as a shelf form my external keyboard, which is rested on a board. So my macbook is closed, inside a drawer, covered by a board, and connected to external monitor and keyboard. 1. How can I boot into windows from the mac desktop.…
For 1, in settings go to Startup Disk. You should then be able to switch the startup partition.
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1. I vaguely remember there being some command or sysctl preference which you can use to set options for next boot and also control sleep options.
System Preferences -> Startup Disk on the MacOS side should let you reboot into Windows. On Windows, you need to install the Windows Bootcamp Utility. It'll add an icon in the taskbar that you can right click to reboot back into MacOS.
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For shutting off the display (locking) I use Shift+Ctrl+Power (not Fn). Or are the two somehow different?
Ctrl+Cmd+Q = locks the screen, Cmd+Alt+Power = locks and sleep. It seems there are a lot of variations with slight details.
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An app that was going to make it on my list was Anesidora, which is a native macOS Pandora player which of all the many music streaming apps I've tested including Apple Music, is the only one which uses less than 10% CPU total including on WindowServer and coreaudiod. Unfortunately since I got it the author seems to have removed it from the app store. There's some other native Pandora apps that might have low resourc…
Have you tried https://hermesapp.org ?
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 hard thing to google for.
Having emacs commands by default on native apps is a really nice detail. It's nearly impossible to do on Windows since there's already a bunch of shortcuts using control. On Linux it's definitely doable but you have to install a keyboard shortcuts app, get an emacs profile, etc. If only reddit didn't use C-b to insert bold text, it'd make navigating in text boxes a lot easier.
It's propbably a dconf setting but I haven't checked which one. It tends to avoid running into issues on boxes in Firefox. But not more advanced things like Google Docs or embedded text editors. (eg Rust playground)
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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…
I was partly aware of many of these, and like I said I'm not 100% sure if this really is the culprit. Your comment is a solid reference on this topic though (better than most of what's on SO), but here's a few comments regarding my specific incident... On your first point: Was aware of this, and this is the part that is most puzzling about the whole incident to me. I just checked my $PATH and I am indeed running the…
#3: Sorry I meant use hosts to skip DNS resolution and just map them to 127.0.0.1 directly (assuming you aren't running an https server locally). The names are ocsp.apple.com and api.apple-cloudkit.com.
Clearly something was trying to resolve hostnames but it may not be related to GateKeeper malware scanning. TBH a tarpit DNS server is not a case I have personally thought about before but is interesting to consider!
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…