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Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by hunter2_ »

intellix wrote: post #3

I'd recommend BetterTouchTool and things like finger swipes for volume up/down and brightness up/down and showing things like Spotify. Originally started with Vas3k preset but eventually replaced things with the built in widgets and gestures

My favorite BTT mapping: 3 finger click (touchpad and/or magic mouse) generates a middle click event.

I have no idea how people open and close browser tabs without this, since browsers have great middle click response but Apple pointing devices don't natively generate such clicks.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by alganet »

I use MTMR[1], My TouchBar My Rules. Great JSON-based customization. Built in Dock applet included (a great pomodoro applet as well, my fav).

The sample presets are kind of cluttered, but removing some of the items and making others was ultra simple. If you know AppleScript you can pretty much any button.

[1] https://github.com/Toxblh/MTMR/

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by AtHeartEngineer »

emidln wrote: post #16
whalabi wrote: post #15

This makes sense There's extra vertical space on the lower half of a MacBook, and the dock wastes vertical space on the screen I normally put the dock on the side, but putting it above the keyboard works too Now if only the damn keyboard had a proper escape key. Who signed off on that. Honestly.

It's just mislabeled as Caps Lock and has bad default behavior. A quick visit to Preferences can sort you out.

Did this about a month ago, definitely worth it

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by RubenSandwich »

I'll plug another touch bar tool here.

Know how your $3,000 MacBook Pro keyboard keeps breaking? Know what's not broken and close to your keyboard? The touch bar. So I built a keyboard into the touchbar: https://github.com/RubenSandwich/TouchBarKeyboard. Problem solved.

But seriously, OP's tool has way more utility then mine.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by keyle »

I was skeptical then I installed it and I can't believe MacOS doesn't ship with this! It's actually making the bar useful.

One bug I noticed is you can get in a situation, with twice the button. But since you miss button all the time, why not having it twice; or more?

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by sbr464 »

Late to the party, but I just randomly realized today that copy & paste syncs across iOS and my iMac. Was surprisingly convenient. Apparently it’s been around since Sierra, but my settings are now in sync enough to just work.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by sysbin »

hunter2_ wrote: post #21
intellix wrote: post #3

I'd recommend BetterTouchTool and things like finger swipes for volume up/down and brightness up/down and showing things like Spotify. Originally started with Vas3k preset but eventually replaced things with the built in widgets and gestures

My favorite BTT mapping: 3 finger click (touchpad and/or magic mouse) generates a middle click event. I have no idea how people open and close browser tabs without this, since browsers have great middle click response but Apple pointing devices don't natively generate such clicks.

I think command+t and command+w are usually my go to methods. I don't have to move my hands from my keyboard.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by wmeddie »

This is pretty great. Only I wish it only showed when I clicked on the desktop (Since Finder does nothing else with the TouchBar) or swipe up from the bottom. Parallels actually does this same thing (minus swiping) for the task bar in Windows guests but switches to app specific bars when you open Office or a browser. I'm in the camp that finds the TouchBar really awesome. Never used function keys (except F5) but I use the TouchBar all the time in IntelliJ, iTunes, Word/Excel and it's great in PowerPoint when scrolling to just the slide you want.

I also love the clicky feel of the keyboard so maybe I'm just special...

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by nickflood »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #20
dustinfarris wrote: post #2

This is what Touch Bar should have been from the beginning IMO. I've been on the fence to upgrade my 2012 MBP. I've been concerned about buying into the Touch Bar hardware when it seems like it is not coming to any other Macs. Why should I devote time to learning Touch Bar and trying to find ways to integrate it with my workflow when keyboard shortcuts are more than enough—and probably better? What happens when I sit…

I've been concerned about buying into the Touch Bar hardware when it seems like it is not coming to any other Macs. If Apple was going to try and open a new front on the "hearts and minds of Touch Bar skeptics" war then the Mac Pro reveal at WWDC a few weeks ago would have been the time to do it, that they didn't makes me think it's not long for this world. Not because the Mac Pro sales would have been hampered by it…

I tended to agree with this, but really with the desktop setup you have to move your eyes and head much farther to see the keyboard because the monitor is not fixed to it. This may be why they don't produce keyboards with the touchbar - the experience would be even less appealing.
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