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9f78db12dfaa186275b264054ed8b10907d69a67 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "sudo apt-get install" on OS X Mavericks My understanding is that you need to install 'Fink' before an apt-get will work in the Terminal on OS X, but there isn't a Fink binary installer yet for Mavericks.
Does anyone know what the best alternative would be for
sudo apt-get install
on OS X Mavericks?
A: Fink has been released for OS X Mavericks. Per their latest news item…
2013-10-30: fink-0.36.0 released.
fink-0.36.0 was released on 31 October, 2013. This is the first release to work with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). We are currently in the process of making packages available.
You can download Fink from fink.thetis.ig42.org.
| Q: "sudo apt-get install" on OS X Mavericks My understanding is that you need to install 'Fink' before an apt-get will work in the Terminal on OS X, but there isn't a Fink binary installer yet for Mavericks.
Does anyone know what the best alternative would be for
sudo apt-get install
on OS X Mavericks?
A: Fink has been released for OS X Mavericks. Per their latest news item…
2013-10-30: fink-0.36.0 released.
fink-0.36.0 was released on 31 October, 2013. This is the first release to work with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). We are currently in the process of making packages available.
You can download Fink from fink.thetis.ig42.org.
A: If I understand correctly, you just want a package manager.
apt-get is just an interface for Aptitude, a deb packaging system. DEB isn't tied into Mac OS like it would be your average Linux distro, so you'd need an alternative.
Fink will do this on its own, other alternatives are MacPorts or Homebrew.
If your goal is to be able to execute a command, say like (something) install program and it'll install the program and its dependencies for you, either of these three will do that for you.
I'd personally suggest Homebrew. http://brew.sh/
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af355df013325e41a6f498d854b32e4e820eed48 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Pinning desktops to monitors in 10.9 Is there a way to pin desktops to monitors like you can pin app windows to desktops?
Specifically my problem is I use a macbook and plug and unplug my external monitor a few times a day. Rearranging my desktops and full-screen apps every time is a pain in the rear end and so I hope there's a setting for that that I just can't find.
A: There was a way to do this a few years ago. I think it was on SL with some third party software, but sadly I can't remember what it was called. Could be discontinued though...
Edit: I remembered: Put the app to the desktop where you want to have it. Right click on dock icon, go to options and select the space you want to assign the app to.
| Q: Pinning desktops to monitors in 10.9 Is there a way to pin desktops to monitors like you can pin app windows to desktops?
Specifically my problem is I use a macbook and plug and unplug my external monitor a few times a day. Rearranging my desktops and full-screen apps every time is a pain in the rear end and so I hope there's a setting for that that I just can't find.
A: There was a way to do this a few years ago. I think it was on SL with some third party software, but sadly I can't remember what it was called. Could be discontinued though...
Edit: I remembered: Put the app to the desktop where you want to have it. Right click on dock icon, go to options and select the space you want to assign the app to.
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aeb379fc7683da3ad87de372311bfbbd05dfd762 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change Spotlight search engine? when I use Spotlight, it offers to "Search web for: " (something like that, my system is german). When I use this feature, Chrome pops up and searches with the Yahoo search engine.
Chrome is the right choice, but I want so search with Google. My Browser Settings state that Google is my default search engine.
Does anybody know where this might be configured?
A: Fire up Safari and check the settings for the default search engine. For me that is google and searching the way you described it for me opens safari (currently my default browser) with a google search.
The option is right there on the first settings tab. I included an image detailing where to find it (sorry for the german):
| Q: How do I change Spotlight search engine? when I use Spotlight, it offers to "Search web for: " (something like that, my system is german). When I use this feature, Chrome pops up and searches with the Yahoo search engine.
Chrome is the right choice, but I want so search with Google. My Browser Settings state that Google is my default search engine.
Does anybody know where this might be configured?
A: Fire up Safari and check the settings for the default search engine. For me that is google and searching the way you described it for me opens safari (currently my default browser) with a google search.
The option is right there on the first settings tab. I included an image detailing where to find it (sorry for the german):
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020cd42d52e1b18b4fb89403279f74234fff98ac | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Configure macOS Notification Center Banner self-dismiss time How can I reduce the amount of time before a macOS / OS X Notification Center banner dismisses itself?
A: Open your terminal and run this command
defaults write com.apple.notificationcenterui bannerTime SECONDS
where SECONDS is a number for how many seconds you want the banner to be displayed.
| Q: Configure macOS Notification Center Banner self-dismiss time How can I reduce the amount of time before a macOS / OS X Notification Center banner dismisses itself?
A: Open your terminal and run this command
defaults write com.apple.notificationcenterui bannerTime SECONDS
where SECONDS is a number for how many seconds you want the banner to be displayed.
A: Currently, you cannot change the duration. But you can dismiss it manually by placing the cursor over the banner and doing a two finger swipe from left to right on a trackpad (or a one finger swipe on a magic mouse).
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28fcaa7417eb57e9db9217b55fd0caab5df5a9cc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I forward email as nice readable attachment? I'm writing a new email, and in that email I'm referring to a couple of other emails. In Outlook or Thunderbird I used to just drag and drop mails to my new mail and they appeared as attachments.
In OS X Mail, some icon appears in the mail but when I double click on it, it shows plain text with headers, and not a nice HTML mail.
How can I attach it properly?
OS X 10.9, Mail 7.0 (1816)
A: Use Mail -> Message -> Forward as Attachment to send the selected mail messages on as an attachment.
| Q: How can I forward email as nice readable attachment? I'm writing a new email, and in that email I'm referring to a couple of other emails. In Outlook or Thunderbird I used to just drag and drop mails to my new mail and they appeared as attachments.
In OS X Mail, some icon appears in the mail but when I double click on it, it shows plain text with headers, and not a nice HTML mail.
How can I attach it properly?
OS X 10.9, Mail 7.0 (1816)
A: Use Mail -> Message -> Forward as Attachment to send the selected mail messages on as an attachment.
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b145b66c23fd49aec8cc3840dbdffbb00a118afe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I determine what application is asking "Where is GrowlHelperApp.App?" I recently upgraded to OS X 10.9 Mavericks and am now seeing a "Choose Application" dialog pop up every minute or two asking: "Where is the GrowlHelperApp.app?". I don't particularly want to buy the new version of Growl, so how can I determine which application is looking for it so that I can change it's preferences or remove it?
Update: It turns out that it was an old Dashboard widget that was looking for Growl. I found this out by deleting all of my Dashboard widgets since I haven't used it in a while, but I'd still be interested in finding out how one would discover what is launching this dialog.
A: You could have used sudo opensnoop to see what files are being opened or fseventer to see what files are being modified.
Those dialogs are often shown by AppleScripts that have reference a missing application. You could also have tried running mdfind GrowlHelperApp, but it doesn't search the contents of compiled scripts or scripts saved as applications.
| Q: How can I determine what application is asking "Where is GrowlHelperApp.App?" I recently upgraded to OS X 10.9 Mavericks and am now seeing a "Choose Application" dialog pop up every minute or two asking: "Where is the GrowlHelperApp.app?". I don't particularly want to buy the new version of Growl, so how can I determine which application is looking for it so that I can change it's preferences or remove it?
Update: It turns out that it was an old Dashboard widget that was looking for Growl. I found this out by deleting all of my Dashboard widgets since I haven't used it in a while, but I'd still be interested in finding out how one would discover what is launching this dialog.
A: You could have used sudo opensnoop to see what files are being opened or fseventer to see what files are being modified.
Those dialogs are often shown by AppleScripts that have reference a missing application. You could also have tried running mdfind GrowlHelperApp, but it doesn't search the contents of compiled scripts or scripts saved as applications.
A: Helped me solve this problem I am having an awful lot of time. The mdfind GrowlHelperApp with combo of deleteting the resource files found helped me to remove the annoying popup window. In my case, Firefox was the rooting problem app.
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cee90d15ae8e6baa3f99557fdc77d0337481bbb7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How did Starbucks send bold text in an MMS to Messages? I received the discount message shown below from Starbucks on iOS 7.0.3. Somehow they managed to make part of the message text bold. How did they do this, or better, how can I recreate it?
I tried sending a formatted email to my phone number, but it was converted to plain text, as I've thought all SMS/MMS messages are.
Note: The bold text accessibility setting in Settings is set to off.
A: In Settings > Messages, turn on Show Subject Field. The subject will display in bold when an MMS is sent.
| Q: How did Starbucks send bold text in an MMS to Messages? I received the discount message shown below from Starbucks on iOS 7.0.3. Somehow they managed to make part of the message text bold. How did they do this, or better, how can I recreate it?
I tried sending a formatted email to my phone number, but it was converted to plain text, as I've thought all SMS/MMS messages are.
Note: The bold text accessibility setting in Settings is set to off.
A: In Settings > Messages, turn on Show Subject Field. The subject will display in bold when an MMS is sent.
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d0316aeedf9d154881f4e4ea492472397d0eea63 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I add 100 Phone Numbers to a Single Contact? My bank insists on sending me account info SMS (texts) from ~100 different numbers. They all start the same, only the last two digits differ.
e.g.
*
*+43 664 6601301
*+43 664 6601302
*+43 664 6601303
*...
*+43 664 6601399
Can I add all of them to a single contact? Preferably without having to type them separately.
I tried
*
*+43 664 66013
*+43 664 66013,
*+43 664 66013*
*+43 664 66013#
*+43 664 66013##
but the iPhone doesn't recognize any for the caller id.
A: As far as I am aware there is no reference to wildcard characters in vcard.
If Mac OS or iOS supported such feature it would not be supported by other devices.
But you can add the 100 phone numbers by hand. I would recommend exporting the contact as a vcd file then add all the numbers by hand. Copy paste will be faster than writing them one by one in the Contacts app:
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601301
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601302
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601303
...
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601399
And import it back.
| Q: Can I add 100 Phone Numbers to a Single Contact? My bank insists on sending me account info SMS (texts) from ~100 different numbers. They all start the same, only the last two digits differ.
e.g.
*
*+43 664 6601301
*+43 664 6601302
*+43 664 6601303
*...
*+43 664 6601399
Can I add all of them to a single contact? Preferably without having to type them separately.
I tried
*
*+43 664 66013
*+43 664 66013,
*+43 664 66013*
*+43 664 66013#
*+43 664 66013##
but the iPhone doesn't recognize any for the caller id.
A: As far as I am aware there is no reference to wildcard characters in vcard.
If Mac OS or iOS supported such feature it would not be supported by other devices.
But you can add the 100 phone numbers by hand. I would recommend exporting the contact as a vcd file then add all the numbers by hand. Copy paste will be faster than writing them one by one in the Contacts app:
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601301
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601302
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601303
...
TEL;type=WORK;type=VOICE;type=pref:+43 664 6601399
And import it back.
A: I had to do something similar recently, but with 2000 phone numbers, so I wrote a small python script, vcard-wildcard, to generate vcards with multiple numbers based on a wildcard. Beware that attaching >100 numbers to a single vcard may cause your phone to become unresponsive for a while when you attempt to import the generated contact.
Example usage:
python vcard-wildcard.py --company "Robocallers" "(555) 555 55??" > bigcontact.vcf
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b46b6d9e482a99d719968b58e50f55ea6459e2b3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the benefit of using shift (for slow animation) when minimizing windows? I came across this today by accident:
If you try to minimise a window in OS X 10.8 (might be in others) while holding down the shift key the window will very slowly go into the Dock. The whole animation is slowed.
Any ideas what the purpose of this is?
A: Steve Jobs shows this off the first time he is showing OS X, at Macworld 2000. He mentions that the effect was designed for that one demonstration. It's amazing that it is still around 14 years later.
https://youtu.be/AcGzCIlz8y0?t=6478
| Q: What's the benefit of using shift (for slow animation) when minimizing windows? I came across this today by accident:
If you try to minimise a window in OS X 10.8 (might be in others) while holding down the shift key the window will very slowly go into the Dock. The whole animation is slowed.
Any ideas what the purpose of this is?
A: Steve Jobs shows this off the first time he is showing OS X, at Macworld 2000. He mentions that the effect was designed for that one demonstration. It's amazing that it is still around 14 years later.
https://youtu.be/AcGzCIlz8y0?t=6478
A: There is no purpose of this. This is just a easter egg and purely for "entertainment".
A: As with @napcae's answer, the "slow motion genie" effect is just a bit of fun, but I have used it in the past to demonstrate (usually to Windows users) some of the finer points of the Mac OS X display subsystems. Namely, that rather than drawing each window on a pixel by pixel basis (think of Windows systems that leave random stray parts of windows as you drag them around and the window subsystem struggles to keep up with all the redraw mechanisms resulting in scroll bars hanging in mid air, or that nasty windows trail thing), OS X essentially draws a windows contents using something that is more akin to a 3D game engine mapping a texture to a polygon. You can demonstrate this by having the following command ready in a terminal window, and quickly executing it while you slow-minimise a window:
killall Dock
The dock process is the thing that governs all this sort of thing, and if you kill it it will happily respawn a new one, but the operations that it was part way through completing won't get finished or reversed. You will end up with a half minimised window that is warped into a strange shape and yet which is still fully usable. Check it out with textedit, and note that you can still type in it (selecting text is more difficult!), or try it with a Quicktime movie window and notice how the thing is still playing.
Essentially its not just a daft effect, it's demonstrating the window drawing capabilities of the display layer, and how they are managed in a superior way to many other desktop OS window systems.
Note that this effect has been around since at least 2001 (according to a Google search), and I first knew about it in 10.4 where I saw it used to show off the new graphical window manager that used the Quartz Extreme engine to draw the windows. If I recall the details correctly essentially every windows is basically made up of Quicktime, Open GL or Quartz 2D data source, the latter of which is essentially internally rendered into postscript (essentially all your window dressing elements, toolbars, scroll bars, are a PDF...), which is then rastered into a single window combining all the elements (Your PDF window dressing, with it's quicktime or openGL contents, or a mix there of for a web page etc) as a 3d "texture" on a 2d plane by Quartz Composer to make the window you see.
For more details read the following 2 pages from the Siracusa Tiger Review over at Arstechnica which discusses the way in which the window manager has evolved and has a pretty good explanation of how it works, which is by and large the same now as it was for Tiger (or at least, the changes are not as large since Tiger as they were before Tiger which is when the GPU started to take over pretty much all window drawing tasks from the CPU)
A: This functionality is decidedly NOT "just a bit of fun." Please do not make up answers when you don't know them, or make assumptions based on your limited use and knowledge of functionality.
The primary purpose of being able to slow down the animations would be evident if you thought about the purpose of animations in the first place. Ask yourself, why not just cut from the view of (say) a desktop with some application at the front and others behind it to a view of (say) an application's windows? The first answer that comes to my mind is this: Animating such a process allows a user to visually track the movement of a normally-sized window as it shrinks and moves to its new size and location on the screen. Otherwise, I might not be able to tell which window went where.
Try this: Add a new Desktop workspace and set the screen resolution to 800 x 500. Open on it 60 Finder windows of the same size. The experiment will profit from having several windows with similar tab configurations, views, contents, and names. Now open approximately 60 windows in a web browser. To emphasize the point, let each window be the same size, and let each be the current results from Google of some short search string. Use Mission Control to help you keep track of one of your windows. I think you'll find it can prove difficult. Slowing the animation suddenly makes it manageable.
I'm shocked that more people don't appreciate this accommodation for people with differing visual and attention abilities.
A: It's disabled on new macOS, try this command to enable it by Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool true && killall Dock
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449a1fe90f1ecdfe5f56fa860da6bc63ff84399e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove HTC Sync Manager from autostart Every time I start my laptop, the HTC Sync Manager is launched automatically. I don't mean the automounter which is started when you connect your phone. I mean the the HTC Sync Manager itself which is magically started and places its icon on the top of the screen:
Question: How can I turn off that the HTC Sync Manager is started on every reboot?
I'm running a MacBook Pro with 10.9.
Edit:
When I go to Preferences->Users&Groups->LoginItems then the HTC Manager does not appear there. The directory /Library/StartupItems/ is empty as well.
Edit:
I have made the folder content of certain startup daemons available as requested by Frizlab. Please find here the contents of the command
tree ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ /Library/LaunchAgents/ /Library/LaunchDaemons/ \
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/ /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
Additionally, I have reboot the MacBook without logging in and opened an ssh to it. It seems that the HTC application is started after the login. After I logged in, I find the following process
penny:~ patrick$ ps x | grep HTC
232 ?? S 0:00.22 /Applications/HTC Sync Manager.app/Contents/Resources/HSMMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HSMMonitor -runMode autoLaunched
401 s001 S+ 0:00.00 grep HTC
A: Try
launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nero.HSMMonitor.plist
| Q: Remove HTC Sync Manager from autostart Every time I start my laptop, the HTC Sync Manager is launched automatically. I don't mean the automounter which is started when you connect your phone. I mean the the HTC Sync Manager itself which is magically started and places its icon on the top of the screen:
Question: How can I turn off that the HTC Sync Manager is started on every reboot?
I'm running a MacBook Pro with 10.9.
Edit:
When I go to Preferences->Users&Groups->LoginItems then the HTC Manager does not appear there. The directory /Library/StartupItems/ is empty as well.
Edit:
I have made the folder content of certain startup daemons available as requested by Frizlab. Please find here the contents of the command
tree ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ /Library/LaunchAgents/ /Library/LaunchDaemons/ \
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/ /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
Additionally, I have reboot the MacBook without logging in and opened an ssh to it. It seems that the HTC application is started after the login. After I logged in, I find the following process
penny:~ patrick$ ps x | grep HTC
232 ?? S 0:00.22 /Applications/HTC Sync Manager.app/Contents/Resources/HSMMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HSMMonitor -runMode autoLaunched
401 s001 S+ 0:00.00 grep HTC
A: Try
launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nero.HSMMonitor.plist
A: To disable HTC Sync Manager auto-mounting
Launch terminal
Type
diskutil info /Volumes/HTC Sync Manager
Make a note of the Volume UUID.
Next
sudo vifs
Go to the bottom of the file
tap the i key
And paste the following
UUID=YOURVOLUMEUUID none hfs rw,noauto
Replacing YOURVOLUMEUUID with the one you made a note of earlier
Hit Esc
Then type the following to save.
:wq
You will be using "vim" in case you need help with the editor.
From softwareispoetry
Edit: For stopping applications from autostarting go to Preferences > Users & Groups, then click on your user and remove HTC Sync Manager from your Login Items.
A: You can also disable the autorun volume on the phone:
Settings > Apps > All > HTC Sync Manager
Tap "Disable", for good measure tap "Force stop" and "Clear data"
A: *
*Open Terminal
*cd /Applications/HTC\ Sync\ Manager.app/Contents/Resources/
*Rename HSMMonitor.app
mv HSMMonitor.app HSMMonitor.bak.app
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a37bc32af6df1daed16d7721ee7ec69958d47182 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to see VPN connection statistics? I live in China, which requires me to use several VPN's to access the outside web. Occasionally, some VPN's are either totally blocked or suffer from high packet loss.
In Windows, it is easy to see statistics such as the packets in/out, the compression ratio, and most importantly for me, the packet loss ratio. Is there a way to see VPN connection quality information OS X?
A: Nothing as nice and easy as Windows provides, however you can get the info you require if you enable verbose logging on your PPTP connection:
*
*Open System Preferences → Network.
*Select your your VPN service from the list of services on the left.
*Click Advanced….
*Then tick Use verbose logging and click OK, then Apply.
*In Terminal, run the following command:
tail -f /var/log/ppp.log
| Q: How to see VPN connection statistics? I live in China, which requires me to use several VPN's to access the outside web. Occasionally, some VPN's are either totally blocked or suffer from high packet loss.
In Windows, it is easy to see statistics such as the packets in/out, the compression ratio, and most importantly for me, the packet loss ratio. Is there a way to see VPN connection quality information OS X?
A: Nothing as nice and easy as Windows provides, however you can get the info you require if you enable verbose logging on your PPTP connection:
*
*Open System Preferences → Network.
*Select your your VPN service from the list of services on the left.
*Click Advanced….
*Then tick Use verbose logging and click OK, then Apply.
*In Terminal, run the following command:
tail -f /var/log/ppp.log
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448424b16a958df490c6cfb6e40742b29ec977b7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to stop vibrating on new Mail using iOS 7? Whenever I get a new message in my mail, my phone vibrates. How do I turn off this behavior?
A: The only way to do that is to go into "Sounds" in Settings and pick "None" as the sound for Mail. This is bad because without Sound there will be no indication of new email when the phone is locked. Hope that in a future iOS release, this option will be added.
| Q: How to stop vibrating on new Mail using iOS 7? Whenever I get a new message in my mail, my phone vibrates. How do I turn off this behavior?
A: The only way to do that is to go into "Sounds" in Settings and pick "None" as the sound for Mail. This is bad because without Sound there will be no indication of new email when the phone is locked. Hope that in a future iOS release, this option will be added.
A: you can also do custom vibration, which I found was great. under sounds --> new mail--> vibration-->custom--> create new vibration. Just tap it gently once only and remove our finger. Hit stop and then save.
I found it this was much better than using any of the custom tones. Esp if you are your using your iphone for work and when its on the desk, it vibrates everytime you get an emai and the whole office knows.
Hope this helps
A: Go to; Sounds -> New Mail -> Vibration (at the top) -> Select "None" (in the bottom)
A: Go to Notification Centre > Mail. Then choose the account you want.
Then choose alert sound > vibration.
There is a 'none' option at the bottom.
A: right above your volume keys on the left side of your phone, you will see a knob.. make sure you dont see the orange mark. if your sounds setting is set on vibrate when silent and you see the orange mark on the knob above the volume knobs or keys your phone will vibrate when you receive new mail. left side meaning on the left of your phone not on the screen.
try if that works.
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ddb174e139b7474cbbe0c727b88b09e004d37808 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Text copied from Terminal with formatting in Mavericks (10.9), Yosemite (10.10), and El Capitan (10.11) After the update to Mavericks (10.9), anything copied from Terminal is pasted in the target app with the same formatting as in Terminal, in my case, white monospaced letters on a black background, e.g.:
(I pasted some text from Terminal into a New Mail window.)
Previously (10.8 and earlier) only plain text was copied, without any formatting at all.
This happens in apps that are capable of receiving rich text formatting. In plain text apps, e.g. TextWrangler or TextEdit in plain text mode, only the content is copied, of course.
Can formatting copying be disabled for the Terminal app?
The same happens in Yosemite (10.10) and El Capitan (10.11) as well.
A: In El Capitan, you can set the formatting in Terminal app. Simply select Edit -> Copy Special and select Plain Text for no formatting or you can create a profile that looks good when pasted in a document.
| Q: Text copied from Terminal with formatting in Mavericks (10.9), Yosemite (10.10), and El Capitan (10.11) After the update to Mavericks (10.9), anything copied from Terminal is pasted in the target app with the same formatting as in Terminal, in my case, white monospaced letters on a black background, e.g.:
(I pasted some text from Terminal into a New Mail window.)
Previously (10.8 and earlier) only plain text was copied, without any formatting at all.
This happens in apps that are capable of receiving rich text formatting. In plain text apps, e.g. TextWrangler or TextEdit in plain text mode, only the content is copied, of course.
Can formatting copying be disabled for the Terminal app?
The same happens in Yosemite (10.10) and El Capitan (10.11) as well.
A: In El Capitan, you can set the formatting in Terminal app. Simply select Edit -> Copy Special and select Plain Text for no formatting or you can create a profile that looks good when pasted in a document.
A: You can disable copy/pasting the formatting from Terminal by changing the com.apple.Terminal preferences file.
Open Terminal on your Mac and enter the following command:
defaults write com.apple.Terminal CopyAttributesProfile com.apple.Terminal.no-attributes
This will strip all text attributes out of copy/pasting from Terminal
A: You can configure a global keyboard shortcut as described in this post: http://ask.metafilter.com/187733/OSX-How-to-copy-plaintext-always-everywhere-without-exception
This solved it for me. I am working on a big visio diagram and I need to copy stuff from terminal and paste it into visio a few hundred times a day - so this change in 10.9 was a big blow for me.
A: Just use 'Paste Matching Style'
Which will keep the formatting as the same as the insertion point
So instead off:
You would get:
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bfcf141eb4d831dc80ef5a12b7878dedb17b5e38 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the BSD equivalent of the linux date command for adding subtracting days/weeks/months from a given date? I have a given date, such as 2013-10-31 and I need to accurately determine the next day (taking into account DST, leap years, leap minutes, timezones, etc). I have no way of knowing whether the date is at the end of a month/year/etc, and I sincerely hope not having to care about that.
In Linux, I simply type:
date1="2013-10-31"
day_after=`date -ud"$date1 1 days" +%Y-%m-%d`
echo "$day_after" => 2013-11-01
However, when I try the same in Darwin/BSD:
date1="2013-10-31"
day_after=`date -v1d -ujf"%Y-%m-%d" $date1 +%Y-%m-%d`
echo "$day_after" => 2013-10-01
How can I get BSD to do proper date calculations?
A: You must specify + in your date adjustment or BSD assumes that you are giving it an actual day of the month to use.
date1="2013-10-31"
day_after=`date -v+1d -ujf"%Y-%m-%d" $date1 +%Y-%m-%d`
echo "$day_after" => 2013-11-01
| Q: What's the BSD equivalent of the linux date command for adding subtracting days/weeks/months from a given date? I have a given date, such as 2013-10-31 and I need to accurately determine the next day (taking into account DST, leap years, leap minutes, timezones, etc). I have no way of knowing whether the date is at the end of a month/year/etc, and I sincerely hope not having to care about that.
In Linux, I simply type:
date1="2013-10-31"
day_after=`date -ud"$date1 1 days" +%Y-%m-%d`
echo "$day_after" => 2013-11-01
However, when I try the same in Darwin/BSD:
date1="2013-10-31"
day_after=`date -v1d -ujf"%Y-%m-%d" $date1 +%Y-%m-%d`
echo "$day_after" => 2013-10-01
How can I get BSD to do proper date calculations?
A: You must specify + in your date adjustment or BSD assumes that you are giving it an actual day of the month to use.
date1="2013-10-31"
day_after=`date -v+1d -ujf"%Y-%m-%d" $date1 +%Y-%m-%d`
echo "$day_after" => 2013-11-01
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cdc29f837978a1834cea3062704c000e25c7edc8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Skype hangs since upgrading to Mavericks Since upgrading to Mavericks the latest version of the Skype app (6.9 rev 701) hangs frequently, pretty much every time on wake after the laptop goes to sleep.
I've heard some suggestions about downgrading to an earlier version in the 6 series, any decent workaround for this problem?
A: It would be worth upgrading as significant changes have been made for anyone in this situation.
| Q: Skype hangs since upgrading to Mavericks Since upgrading to Mavericks the latest version of the Skype app (6.9 rev 701) hangs frequently, pretty much every time on wake after the laptop goes to sleep.
I've heard some suggestions about downgrading to an earlier version in the 6 series, any decent workaround for this problem?
A: It would be worth upgrading as significant changes have been made for anyone in this situation.
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a6de6345ef45c572595903c00dc12e4d7b300a3c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change lower case am/pm on the menu bar to uppercase?
I find the time shown on the menu bar on mavericks a bit annoying. It's not perfect. The "AM/PM" is now shown in lowercase after upgrade to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Back in the previous versions of OS X, it was displayed in uppercase.
Is there a way change the lowercase am/pm to uppercase?
A: Since my system is german, I'm not 100% sure, but try this:
*
*go to 'Language & Region' in the System Preferences
*
*open 'Advanced Options'
*
*go to tab 'Time' and see if you can customize the way it's displayed
| Q: How to change lower case am/pm on the menu bar to uppercase?
I find the time shown on the menu bar on mavericks a bit annoying. It's not perfect. The "AM/PM" is now shown in lowercase after upgrade to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Back in the previous versions of OS X, it was displayed in uppercase.
Is there a way change the lowercase am/pm to uppercase?
A: Since my system is german, I'm not 100% sure, but try this:
*
*go to 'Language & Region' in the System Preferences
*
*open 'Advanced Options'
*
*go to tab 'Time' and see if you can customize the way it's displayed
A: Go into System Preferences -> Language & region, click on the button labeled "Advanced…" in the lower right, select the tab labeled "Times" and and then enter AM / PM as the abbreviations for Before / After noon in the lower left text fields.
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c4adbdc3790d3f344d8c6c4dfd29004ef2f15cd0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't exec "glibtoolize": No such file or directory I have a shell script autogen.sh, I run it under my project directory in terminal:
./autogen.sh
I get error:
Can't exec "glibtoolize": No such file or directory at
/usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm
line 345, line 4.
Then, seems it can not find glibtoolize, so I tried to figure out where is my glibtoolize. Eventually, I find it is in this path:
/usr/local/Cellar/libtool/2.4.2/bin/glibtoolize
Then, I get stuck, how to solve my problem after I found my glibtoolize?
A: Looks like you already have libtool installed via brew but it is not linked so the required symlinks in /usr/local/bin are still missing. To create them,
brew link libtool
| Q: Can't exec "glibtoolize": No such file or directory I have a shell script autogen.sh, I run it under my project directory in terminal:
./autogen.sh
I get error:
Can't exec "glibtoolize": No such file or directory at
/usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm
line 345, line 4.
Then, seems it can not find glibtoolize, so I tried to figure out where is my glibtoolize. Eventually, I find it is in this path:
/usr/local/Cellar/libtool/2.4.2/bin/glibtoolize
Then, I get stuck, how to solve my problem after I found my glibtoolize?
A: Looks like you already have libtool installed via brew but it is not linked so the required symlinks in /usr/local/bin are still missing. To create them,
brew link libtool
A: I ran into multiple problem while downloading protobuf. Try
brew install libtool
A: I had the same problem after adding glibtoolize to the PATH variable it worked.
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/libtool/2.4.2/bin
export PATH
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7514f2bcc19c792b42594d6817031d42af93f6c1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does Windows or Linux have any tools for accessing a FileVault2 encrypted drive's contents? I'm looking to mount (and access files on) my FileVault2 encrypted drive on a non-OS X box, and am wondering if anyone has done this with Windows or Linux.
A: On Linux, the libfvde project aims to support decoding FileVault2. Yogesh Khatri wrote an overview article where he suggests starting with libfvde's wiki.
On Windows, the company Passware claim support for decrypting FileVault2 drives as part of Passware Kit Forensic 13.1. A CNet article mentions the software and highlights the feature in an included screenshot:
| Q: Does Windows or Linux have any tools for accessing a FileVault2 encrypted drive's contents? I'm looking to mount (and access files on) my FileVault2 encrypted drive on a non-OS X box, and am wondering if anyone has done this with Windows or Linux.
A: On Linux, the libfvde project aims to support decoding FileVault2. Yogesh Khatri wrote an overview article where he suggests starting with libfvde's wiki.
On Windows, the company Passware claim support for decrypting FileVault2 drives as part of Passware Kit Forensic 13.1. A CNet article mentions the software and highlights the feature in an included screenshot:
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/108576"
} |
b69414d5c4d04bfbf7a3df04ce348e1e8c2f65fb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to selectively (un)subscribe IMAP folders in 10.9 Mail.app I cannot find a way to selectively subscribe to IMAP folders in Mail.app in 10.9
Is there a way? Am I missing something there? It seems the IMAP implementation in Mail.app is still quite buggy and plays especially bad with dovecot IMAP servers.
A: In theory: Control+click an IMAP folder in Mail, and select Get Account Info from the context menu. In the resulting dialog, select the Subscription List tab. Then subscribe and unsubscribe as desired.
In practice, I'm not sure whether that actually works; I can't test it on my particular system.
| Q: How to selectively (un)subscribe IMAP folders in 10.9 Mail.app I cannot find a way to selectively subscribe to IMAP folders in Mail.app in 10.9
Is there a way? Am I missing something there? It seems the IMAP implementation in Mail.app is still quite buggy and plays especially bad with dovecot IMAP servers.
A: In theory: Control+click an IMAP folder in Mail, and select Get Account Info from the context menu. In the resulting dialog, select the Subscription List tab. Then subscribe and unsubscribe as desired.
In practice, I'm not sure whether that actually works; I can't test it on my particular system.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/108583"
} |
ba45680c7f6e1566061f1f60a236b85852345bfa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I map the Windows key to option in Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8? In Remote Desktop Connection version 2.x you could map the remote windows key to the local option key (instead of the command key) in preferences. In the new Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8 from the App Store I can no longer find this setting. Is this feature tucked away somewhere and I'm missing it?
One option might be KeyRemapForMacbook as discussed here, but I want to know if there is a solution that doesn't require third party software.
A: Indeed, this appears to no longer be possible without 3rd-party software.
Adding the same preference key to the new app seemed to not make any difference - it appears that this ability has been removed from the app.
As you mentioned, KeyRemap4Macbook would work with the private.xml that you linked to.
| Q: How can I map the Windows key to option in Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8? In Remote Desktop Connection version 2.x you could map the remote windows key to the local option key (instead of the command key) in preferences. In the new Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8 from the App Store I can no longer find this setting. Is this feature tucked away somewhere and I'm missing it?
One option might be KeyRemapForMacbook as discussed here, but I want to know if there is a solution that doesn't require third party software.
A: Indeed, this appears to no longer be possible without 3rd-party software.
Adding the same preference key to the new app seemed to not make any difference - it appears that this ability has been removed from the app.
As you mentioned, KeyRemap4Macbook would work with the private.xml that you linked to.
A: Here's the private.xml I ended up using in KeyRemap4Macbook to remap the keys. In particular note that I set it up so that the physical command-tab combination still activates app switching just like in the old version of RDP. Note that you must also enable the existing "Shift_L to Lazy_Shift_L" and "Shift_R to Lazy_Shift_R" options to enable using command-shift-tab to navigate backwards while switching apps.
<appdef>
<appname>MRD</appname>
<equal>com.microsoft.rdc.mac</equal>
</appdef>
<item>
<name>Swap command and option in Remote Desktop</name>
<identifier>private.remotedesktopswapcommandandcontrol</identifier>
<only>MRD</only>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::TAB, MODIFIERFLAG_EITHER_LEFT_OR_RIGHT_OPTION, KeyCode::TAB, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::OPTION_L, KeyCode::COMMAND_L</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::COMMAND_L, KeyCode::OPTION_L</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::OPTION_R, KeyCode::COMMAND_R</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::COMMAND_R, KeyCode::OPTION_R</autogen>
</item>
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a04328451876bd32190f955441413a53265f5270 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mavericks - ssh to host under search domain I am VPNed in to a network which has its own search domain, and it mostly works - I don't have to type the domain in the browser, and the host command resolves to the correct IPs.
However, when I try to ssh to a host on that network, ssh tells me it could not resolve the hostname.
This is very perplexing as I have never seen this issue before - the system is either resolving correctly or not at all.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks.
A: Have you tried to SSH to the IP address? It may be simple enough to work. Take the DNS out of the picture if you have the IP addresses of the hosts.
Whenever I use SSH out of Terminal I have always used the IP address and never had any issues.
| Q: Mavericks - ssh to host under search domain I am VPNed in to a network which has its own search domain, and it mostly works - I don't have to type the domain in the browser, and the host command resolves to the correct IPs.
However, when I try to ssh to a host on that network, ssh tells me it could not resolve the hostname.
This is very perplexing as I have never seen this issue before - the system is either resolving correctly or not at all.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks.
A: Have you tried to SSH to the IP address? It may be simple enough to work. Take the DNS out of the picture if you have the IP addresses of the hosts.
Whenever I use SSH out of Terminal I have always used the IP address and never had any issues.
A: For reference - this is exactly what I was looking for:
http://www.eigenspace.org/2011/07/fixing-osx-lion-dns-search-domains/
A: Same thing here:
macbook:~ mark$ host 22r1
22r1.example.com has address 234.123.234.25
macbook:~ mark$ ping 22r1
ping: cannot resolve 22r1: Unknown host
macbook:~ mark$
...for now we've worked around it for SSH at least, by adding the following to userland ~/.ssh/config file:
Host *
HostName %h.example.com
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cadc13bed2a74310dc664364c8767839f5d82033 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can Mail.app in Mavericks show a messages plain text alternative? A few days ago I wanted to verify that a simple multipart html/text mail I was about to send would render correctly in different mail clients. Does anyone know how to let Mail.app under Mavericks show the plain text alternative for an email? It used to be an option in the menus in previous releases, but now it seems to be gone.
A: Apparently there is no way to do this with mavericks' Mail.app.
The option in the menu is gone and setting it by hard in the plist file doesn't seem to work anymore either, according to this post and this post.
Unfortunately you have to switch to a different mail client if you want to have proper multi-format support.
Or, for testing purposes, you could just send you the email in plain text and see how it looks and then verify that both parts are present by looking at the raw mail text (which Mail.app still lets you do).
| Q: How can Mail.app in Mavericks show a messages plain text alternative? A few days ago I wanted to verify that a simple multipart html/text mail I was about to send would render correctly in different mail clients. Does anyone know how to let Mail.app under Mavericks show the plain text alternative for an email? It used to be an option in the menus in previous releases, but now it seems to be gone.
A: Apparently there is no way to do this with mavericks' Mail.app.
The option in the menu is gone and setting it by hard in the plist file doesn't seem to work anymore either, according to this post and this post.
Unfortunately you have to switch to a different mail client if you want to have proper multi-format support.
Or, for testing purposes, you could just send you the email in plain text and see how it looks and then verify that both parts are present by looking at the raw mail text (which Mail.app still lets you do).
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9f52d21b40f94e5a106e07de910412b6ec6e32f0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a shortcut to change tabs on safari? Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch tabs on Safari?
| Q: Is there a shortcut to change tabs on safari? Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch tabs on Safari?
| apple | {
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233bda175f9af5853f73bfb8343d18e14405421a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to type blank character with Mac keyboard? One can type blank character (no visible output but not Space) with Alt+255 on the numpad.
I want to know how to type blank text in Mac.
A: Alt+255 is a non-breakable space (well known as in HTML).
On OS X, you can get it with Option+Space.
| Q: How to type blank character with Mac keyboard? One can type blank character (no visible output but not Space) with Alt+255 on the numpad.
I want to know how to type blank text in Mac.
A: Alt+255 is a non-breakable space (well known as in HTML).
On OS X, you can get it with Option+Space.
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b726d013a6d44acc97b5f90809cb533b4bce2670 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: On OS X is it possible to override DHCP assigned DNS servers but still keeping them for fallback? By default I would like to use the google public DNS servers and to fallback to intranet ones when these are failing.
Is this possible? ... I am looking for a setup that would not break when I move my laptop no other networks.
It would be acceptable if I found a solution specific to this wifi network connection (to do the trick only in this case, and to use defaults for others).
A: You can use ipconfig getpacket to find the DNS server that DHCP recommended:
$ ipconfig getpacket en0
...
domain_name_server (ip_mult): {192.168.3.2, 192.168.42.1}
...
So, assuming you are using the Wi-Fi adapter and its device is en0, you can:
#!/bin/bash
default_servers=$( ipconfig getpacket en0 | \
perl -ne'/domain_name_server.*: \{(.*)}/ && print join " ", split /,\s*/, $1' )
networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 127.0.0.1 $default_servers
| Q: On OS X is it possible to override DHCP assigned DNS servers but still keeping them for fallback? By default I would like to use the google public DNS servers and to fallback to intranet ones when these are failing.
Is this possible? ... I am looking for a setup that would not break when I move my laptop no other networks.
It would be acceptable if I found a solution specific to this wifi network connection (to do the trick only in this case, and to use defaults for others).
A: You can use ipconfig getpacket to find the DNS server that DHCP recommended:
$ ipconfig getpacket en0
...
domain_name_server (ip_mult): {192.168.3.2, 192.168.42.1}
...
So, assuming you are using the Wi-Fi adapter and its device is en0, you can:
#!/bin/bash
default_servers=$( ipconfig getpacket en0 | \
perl -ne'/domain_name_server.*: \{(.*)}/ && print join " ", split /,\s*/, $1' )
networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 127.0.0.1 $default_servers
A: Yes, you can add the Google DNS servers at the top of the list and follow those with your own (intranet servers).
*
*Go to System Preferences > Network
*Select your network interface from the list on the left
*Click the Advanced button on the right
*In the DNS tab of the dialog, click "+" to add or "-" to remove entries (you can also edit entries by double clicking or selecting and clicking on the address)
*Add the Google DNS addresses as the first two entries
*Add your intranet DNS servers below those
*Click OK
*Click Apply
*Close System Preferences
A: There's also a way to do this from the command-line if you're a network administrator looking for a way to do this in a batch:
networksetup listallnetworkservices
# look for the correct network device here, probably "Wi-Fi"
sudo networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
Replace "Wi-Fi" with the correct network device. You may, instead, wish to use:
device=`networksetup listallnetworkservices | grep Wi-Fi`
sudo networksetup -setdnsservers "$device" 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
A: I'm trying to do the same. I'm going to manually run a caching dns server locally and have it learn intranets as I join.
I'm excited that the dns server might even be able to differentiate between intranet and internet hostnames before making the recursive call.
I'm worried that I'll either need short TTLs, or need to write hooks so that every time an interface changes I consider flushing the dns cache, or similiar.
I'll report back if successful...
The first 50%
After looking at the Wikipedia comparison of DNS servers, Dnsmasq comes to the top of my list.
Turns out brew has a forumla for dnsmasq, and it even has some services sub-interface written for brew...great, less to think about, just have to work out the config.
$ brew install dnsmasq # [libidn] internation domain names
$ cp /usr/local/opt/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.conf.example /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
# To have launchd start dnsmasq now and restart at startup:
$ sudo brew services start dnsmasq
(brew also has bind, but minimal state is attractive too me -- not having to clear it when doing network configuration).
Todo
*
*Figure out configuring Network Preferences to use my new dns, and
*Configure dnsmasq to ensure it can use intranet settings. (the real challenge)
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1726ea3ff3dd40fc2549249b30100b809e6e0b0c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac as wi-fi hotspot: how many devices can connect? Is there a theoretical or practical limit to the number of devices that can be connected to a Macbook Pro sharing its internet connection as a wi-fi hotspot?
A: On OSX Yosemite (beta 10.10.3), on MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), today (2015-04-28), I've connected 15 different devices (Android, iOS, Win, OSX) via WiFi hotspot (sharing internet via Ethernet), and reported very low decline in internet bandwith with each new device connected.
| Q: Mac as wi-fi hotspot: how many devices can connect? Is there a theoretical or practical limit to the number of devices that can be connected to a Macbook Pro sharing its internet connection as a wi-fi hotspot?
A: On OSX Yosemite (beta 10.10.3), on MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), today (2015-04-28), I've connected 15 different devices (Android, iOS, Win, OSX) via WiFi hotspot (sharing internet via Ethernet), and reported very low decline in internet bandwith with each new device connected.
A: It can connect at max 7 devices, I have tried to connect more but wasn't able to.
A: I regularly try connecting 27 Wi-Fi modules (ESP-12F) and find that typically around three or four don't connect. It's slightly different every time, so the limit is probably 24.
In my case I'm using a Mac Mini 2009 model to share the internet.
A: I don't know about limit but I'm using 5 devices (3 mobiles and 1 macbook air and 1 windows 8 laptop) without any issue. data transfer ratio is also good.
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320026d160dbbf9f5768b9d7c59e23e7ad3f5a8c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Launchd script's output not being logged to system.log Sample script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello?"
... (other things)
When run via launchd, it definitely runs (the other things are being done) but nothing shows up in system.log. I'm running OS 10.9.
I tried replacing that line with
syslog -s "HELLO?"
but that also shows nothing.
A: You can use the command loggerinstead.
For example logger "test" will result in
Nov 7 17:37:20 bounty.local napcae[82311]: test
in the file /var/log/system.log.
Altough you can use it, I'd recommend to write to your own log file.
| Q: Launchd script's output not being logged to system.log Sample script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello?"
... (other things)
When run via launchd, it definitely runs (the other things are being done) but nothing shows up in system.log. I'm running OS 10.9.
I tried replacing that line with
syslog -s "HELLO?"
but that also shows nothing.
A: You can use the command loggerinstead.
For example logger "test" will result in
Nov 7 17:37:20 bounty.local napcae[82311]: test
in the file /var/log/system.log.
Altough you can use it, I'd recommend to write to your own log file.
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27873d02b251e8d04d78c17998f7c218085064b3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Spaces in Mavericks: apps do not remember their space I've switched to Mavericks and i wonder if the behaviour i'm seeing is a bug or a "feature".
It used to be that whenever you created spaces you could assign apps to a specific space, say Mail.app to space #2. In 10.8 that functionality was lost, but apps seem to 'remember' the space they were closed in. So if i opened Mail.app, dragged it to space #2, switched back to space #1 and open Mail.app again it would still open in space #2.
Unfortunately this seems to be broken in Mavericks. If i try the same thing the app simply opens in the space where i'm currently in, so i need to drag the app to the correct space again. Very frustrating.
Does anyone know a solution to this problem or should i try to file it as a bug with Apple?
A: Since Lion you assign app to a Desktop/space from the dock.
Doing this, app will open in the designated space regardless of the space you actually are.
| Q: Spaces in Mavericks: apps do not remember their space I've switched to Mavericks and i wonder if the behaviour i'm seeing is a bug or a "feature".
It used to be that whenever you created spaces you could assign apps to a specific space, say Mail.app to space #2. In 10.8 that functionality was lost, but apps seem to 'remember' the space they were closed in. So if i opened Mail.app, dragged it to space #2, switched back to space #1 and open Mail.app again it would still open in space #2.
Unfortunately this seems to be broken in Mavericks. If i try the same thing the app simply opens in the space where i'm currently in, so i need to drag the app to the correct space again. Very frustrating.
Does anyone know a solution to this problem or should i try to file it as a bug with Apple?
A: Since Lion you assign app to a Desktop/space from the dock.
Doing this, app will open in the designated space regardless of the space you actually are.
A: I had the same problem and I think I solved it.
Within System Preferences goto Mission Control uncheck "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on their recent use"
A: Mavericks had an issue at one time where the Dock would mess up spaces.
I used to use an Applescript, saved as an app, to relaunch it…
quit application "Dock"
That's all it needs.
Takes a few seconds to relaunch itself, then should behave again afterwards, til next time.
Other things to try, if that's not the fix...
Make sure you don't have 'Displays have separate Spaces' or 'Automatically rearrange…' checked in System Prefs > Mission Control
Then
*
*Go through all the apps that are not behaving…
*Set their space to none & quit.
*Reboot.
*Switch to the 'correct' Space.
*Launch your app.
*Set to 'This Space' again.
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055d945f8bf1f0793a57fd6a03dbdaa3dfc701b2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can the Macbook's webcam be ON without LED indication? Was reading some topics online about hackers accessing user's webcams (on Windows) to spy on them etc, and I am now interested to know if I'm at any risk.
To make it simple, these are my questions :
*
*Can Safari allow websites to activate the webcam without my permission ?
*Can the webcam be activated without the LED being lit ?
*Are there any known trojans that affect macs and leave them vulnerable for such hacks ?
Thanks
A: This research paper reported by the Washington Post and Ars Technica says yes.
Though it was only tested on "old" Macs (Late PPC, early Intel)
| Q: Can the Macbook's webcam be ON without LED indication? Was reading some topics online about hackers accessing user's webcams (on Windows) to spy on them etc, and I am now interested to know if I'm at any risk.
To make it simple, these are my questions :
*
*Can Safari allow websites to activate the webcam without my permission ?
*Can the webcam be activated without the LED being lit ?
*Are there any known trojans that affect macs and leave them vulnerable for such hacks ?
Thanks
A: This research paper reported by the Washington Post and Ars Technica says yes.
Though it was only tested on "old" Macs (Late PPC, early Intel)
A:
Can Safari allow websites to activate the webcam without my permission
?
Don't worry about Safari enabling your webcam. The browser would have to use something like flash/plugin to request access. You would be more susceptible to rogue installed apps for accessing the webcam.
I believe Apple's own find my device can take photos of the user (if it is stolen). I recall seeing news about people taking photos of their thieves and reporting it to police.
A: Any software that so chooses may ask you to initiate a FaceTime session. It cannot start one without your say-so.
The FaceTime cameras (like yours) cannot be active without the LCD on.
There aren't really any hacks that matter.
There are a number of really lame, goofy hacks in some web plugins (Flash), that could be used to access a Flash player that displays your camera's stream, for example, but you'd have to have the camera on, or accept a FaceTime session, or whatever.
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341345d2c2fe532356075cd3434cce0060b67989 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mail keeps setting "Save drafts on the server" checked I open "Preferences" in Mail, uncheck "Store drafts on server" and save (Gmail account). However, when I open the preferences again, the "Store drafts on server" (or whatever it says in English version) is checked again.
It really pisses me off. How can turn it off permanently?
I use OS X Mavericks.
A: Another good option that fixed the problem for me is as follows:
*
*Quit Mail.app.
*Log into Gmail in your favorite web browser.
*Click on the gear menu and select Settings.
*Click on the Labels tab.
*Under System Labels, next to Drafts, click on show if unread and uncheck the Show in IMAP box. Now disable Store draft messages on the server.
*Launch Mail.app.
*Select Mail → Preferences…
*Click on the Accounts button in the toolbar.
*Click once on the account name and then click the Mailbox Behaviors tab.
*Uncheck the Store draft messages on the server box.
*Close the window and opt to save your changes when prompted.
Source: Apple Support Communities: Mavericks Mail app and Gmail Drafts folder
| Q: Mail keeps setting "Save drafts on the server" checked I open "Preferences" in Mail, uncheck "Store drafts on server" and save (Gmail account). However, when I open the preferences again, the "Store drafts on server" (or whatever it says in English version) is checked again.
It really pisses me off. How can turn it off permanently?
I use OS X Mavericks.
A: Another good option that fixed the problem for me is as follows:
*
*Quit Mail.app.
*Log into Gmail in your favorite web browser.
*Click on the gear menu and select Settings.
*Click on the Labels tab.
*Under System Labels, next to Drafts, click on show if unread and uncheck the Show in IMAP box. Now disable Store draft messages on the server.
*Launch Mail.app.
*Select Mail → Preferences…
*Click on the Accounts button in the toolbar.
*Click once on the account name and then click the Mailbox Behaviors tab.
*Uncheck the Store draft messages on the server box.
*Close the window and opt to save your changes when prompted.
Source: Apple Support Communities: Mavericks Mail app and Gmail Drafts folder
A: Are you using Mavericks? This is probably related to the MANY Gmail related problems that have cropped up since it's release.
You are in luck though, as Apple has just released an update to solve many of said problems.
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/07/apple-releases-mail-update-for-mavericks-to-address-gmail-issues/
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e94ec3d700b5fb16a5d5ad5b32d6c13b7fab89cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to logout another user in 10.8? With 10.6 I used to kill the process loginwindow to logout another user, but with 10.8 I noticed that even if I do so, many processes from that user stay active.
So, is there a way to logout another user in 10.8, other than logging him in or manually killing all his processes?
A: As an administrator:
sudo su - user_to_be_logged_out
kill -9 -1
That will log out any user by ending all of the user processes. Use care to not issue the kill -9 -1 as root else some work would be expected to be lost as the system would immediately self-destroy all processes.
There are of course one line commands, but I like having a pause to look and make sure I switched to the correct user before issuing a powerful command like kill -9 -1 and I also avoid at all costs having sudo appear before that kill since I don't even want to kill all processes as root.
| Q: How to logout another user in 10.8? With 10.6 I used to kill the process loginwindow to logout another user, but with 10.8 I noticed that even if I do so, many processes from that user stay active.
So, is there a way to logout another user in 10.8, other than logging him in or manually killing all his processes?
A: As an administrator:
sudo su - user_to_be_logged_out
kill -9 -1
That will log out any user by ending all of the user processes. Use care to not issue the kill -9 -1 as root else some work would be expected to be lost as the system would immediately self-destroy all processes.
There are of course one line commands, but I like having a pause to look and make sure I switched to the correct user before issuing a powerful command like kill -9 -1 and I also avoid at all costs having sudo appear before that kill since I don't even want to kill all processes as root.
A: Like bmike mentioned but combining the commands into an alias that can be used in /bin/tcsh shell. Again this is nice and fast but be careful. Don’t do this on root or yourself.
alias ku "sudo su user_to_be_logged_out -c 'kill -9 -1'"
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6186fd42190c9108a313d332c6c0b150713c38bf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Who installed this Emacs? I have:
$ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.3.1
$ /usr/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
How do I get rid of the second installation of Emacs?
A: The second emacs came with OS X. For files that are logged in the package database, you can use pkgutil:
$ pkgutil --file-info /usr/bin/emacs
volume: /
path: /usr/bin/emacs
pkgid: com.apple.pkg.BSD
pkg-version: 10.9.0.1.1.1306847324
install-time: 1382483268
uid: 0
gid: 0
mode: 555
A list of packages can be obtained via pkgutil --packages. However, note that—again—this only covers items in the package database.
You should not modify items that are part of the core operating system. If you prefer a locally-installed program to override one that came with the operating system, you should adjust your PATH to prefer that program before system paths such as /usr/bin are checked.
One way to do this is to have /usr/local/bin be first in your path and link your /Applications version of emacs to /usr/local/bin so that it will be called first unless a program explicitly calls /usr/bin/emacs
| Q: Who installed this Emacs? I have:
$ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.3.1
$ /usr/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
How do I get rid of the second installation of Emacs?
A: The second emacs came with OS X. For files that are logged in the package database, you can use pkgutil:
$ pkgutil --file-info /usr/bin/emacs
volume: /
path: /usr/bin/emacs
pkgid: com.apple.pkg.BSD
pkg-version: 10.9.0.1.1.1306847324
install-time: 1382483268
uid: 0
gid: 0
mode: 555
A list of packages can be obtained via pkgutil --packages. However, note that—again—this only covers items in the package database.
You should not modify items that are part of the core operating system. If you prefer a locally-installed program to override one that came with the operating system, you should adjust your PATH to prefer that program before system paths such as /usr/bin are checked.
One way to do this is to have /usr/local/bin be first in your path and link your /Applications version of emacs to /usr/local/bin so that it will be called first unless a program explicitly calls /usr/bin/emacs
A: The file /usr/bin/emacs is installed as part of Mac OS X. It is generally not a good idea to change or modify files that are installed as part of the default OS installation; other programs can rely on their presence.
Utilities installed as part of the operating system can be invoked by other programs with the expectation that the version installed will match the operating system spec. Removing them or replacing them with a different version could cause other programs to fail to operate as designed.
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7f34828d0122cd85d9ffbe517fd8daa310e4a0da | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sending images/attachments via Google Chat in Messages app Is it possible to send images or other attachments in the Messages desktop app (OS X) when talking to someone on Google Chat (Jabber)? I have tried sending files but they never receive them.
| Q: Sending images/attachments via Google Chat in Messages app Is it possible to send images or other attachments in the Messages desktop app (OS X) when talking to someone on Google Chat (Jabber)? I have tried sending files but they never receive them.
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09071096504d8ca6efa558a1e111074e216084e3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Automatic Window Switcher I'm looking for a Mac app that will accomplish the following:
Switch between two full-screen mac apps - Tweetdeck and iCal, automatically on a timed interval. Back and forth without stopping.
We have a Mac setup as an office information kiosk. Staff can see quick Twitter updates, then take a look at our shared Exchange calendar in iCal.
Currently I am running an Apple Script using the keyboard shortcuts in Lion to scroll left and right between the two full screen apps. This is great, but from time-to-time the script crashes, or scrolls too far to one side. Looking for something robust and simple.
A: If the applications are in different windows, I think you can simply activate them. Save this as a stay open application:
property counter : 0
on idle
set counter to counter + 1
if counter mod 2 = 0 then
activate application "Twitter"
else
activate application "Firefox"
end if
return 3 -- in seconds
end idle
| Q: Automatic Window Switcher I'm looking for a Mac app that will accomplish the following:
Switch between two full-screen mac apps - Tweetdeck and iCal, automatically on a timed interval. Back and forth without stopping.
We have a Mac setup as an office information kiosk. Staff can see quick Twitter updates, then take a look at our shared Exchange calendar in iCal.
Currently I am running an Apple Script using the keyboard shortcuts in Lion to scroll left and right between the two full screen apps. This is great, but from time-to-time the script crashes, or scrolls too far to one side. Looking for something robust and simple.
A: If the applications are in different windows, I think you can simply activate them. Save this as a stay open application:
property counter : 0
on idle
set counter to counter + 1
if counter mod 2 = 0 then
activate application "Twitter"
else
activate application "Firefox"
end if
return 3 -- in seconds
end idle
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7ba3a9df8041e923b012c42f0fc8298075236c13 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I restore the tab to Increase Indent Level in Keynote '13? As of Keynote '13 for Mavericks, it seems Apple disabled ⇥ Tab to increase indent level (and ⇧ Shift+⇥ Tab to decrease it).
Is there any way to re-enable this? I tried using the Keyboard Shortcuts control, but you cannot set ⇥ Tab as a keyboard shortcut (it instead just moves you to the next control).
A: After a great deal of testing, I have come to the conclusion that tab works to increase indent, but ONLY if your master slide is configured to have bullets. My solution (since I did not really want bullets on my slides) was to turn on bullets and set the color opacity to 0.
| Q: How do I restore the tab to Increase Indent Level in Keynote '13? As of Keynote '13 for Mavericks, it seems Apple disabled ⇥ Tab to increase indent level (and ⇧ Shift+⇥ Tab to decrease it).
Is there any way to re-enable this? I tried using the Keyboard Shortcuts control, but you cannot set ⇥ Tab as a keyboard shortcut (it instead just moves you to the next control).
A: After a great deal of testing, I have come to the conclusion that tab works to increase indent, but ONLY if your master slide is configured to have bullets. My solution (since I did not really want bullets on my slides) was to turn on bullets and set the color opacity to 0.
A: I had decimal tabs bult into a text block and when using the Tab key, it pushed lines from the far left.
Holding the OPTION key don while tabbing makes it work correctly....Bizarre behavior
A: I have this same issue where tabs insert a tab without increasing the indent... and I have to use the indent button to get the bullets feature to behave correctly from the master template. This was confusing me a great deal as bullets weren't working correctly per the master template formatting... until I figured out the issue was with the tab key response. The issue is associated with keynote files updated from 09. I haven't found a solution yet to get the tab working to drive indentation
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b9b29f9188832f5f4366903c41b5624b402fdac7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Finder sidebar icons gone After a reboot caused by an empty battery, my Finder’s sidebar icons are just gone. I tried a few reboots, re-launching Finder, but I can’t fix it.
A: Try resetting Finder by running the following Terminal command:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist && killall Finder
This will reset all Finder preferences back to default.
| Q: Finder sidebar icons gone After a reboot caused by an empty battery, my Finder’s sidebar icons are just gone. I tried a few reboots, re-launching Finder, but I can’t fix it.
A: Try resetting Finder by running the following Terminal command:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist && killall Finder
This will reset all Finder preferences back to default.
A: I just install Mavericks and that's fixed.
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3a44bbea694e9c1e8fc051e427d2e4e74f3de4a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I simplify transfer of Books to iPad I upgraded to Maverics, and thought having iBooks on the Mac would be a good idea, so I could read epubs.
My books are gone from iTunes, although the process of adding them to a Collection in iBooks doesn't seem to be any better.
I only have selected Books on the iPad, and it seems I have to attach the iPad to iTunes, so I can select the Books in iBooks I want then sync.
On the iPad I then have to move the new books into the Category, as this doesn't seem to transfer in the sync.
This is an IMPROVEMENT?
| Q: How do I simplify transfer of Books to iPad I upgraded to Maverics, and thought having iBooks on the Mac would be a good idea, so I could read epubs.
My books are gone from iTunes, although the process of adding them to a Collection in iBooks doesn't seem to be any better.
I only have selected Books on the iPad, and it seems I have to attach the iPad to iTunes, so I can select the Books in iBooks I want then sync.
On the iPad I then have to move the new books into the Category, as this doesn't seem to transfer in the sync.
This is an IMPROVEMENT?
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f2bbf6601f02f1793e057be479276d42dc321d0a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use a Mini Displayport cable to connect a Late 2013 rMBP to a 2009 iMac? Can I use a male to male Mini Displayport cable to connect a Late 2013 rMBP to a 2009 iMac?
I want to use the 2009 iMac as a secondary display for the rMBP.
A: My late 2009 iMac works as an external display for my Early 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro, and for my Mid 2014 15" Retina MacBook Pro, using this cable. Both laptops have Thunderbolt; the iMac does not have Thunderbolt.
I don't have a Late 2013 Retina MacBook to test, but it seems reasonable to assume it has the same compatibility. Apple also indicates DisplayPort cables work for the 2009 iMac.
*
*https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
| Q: Use a Mini Displayport cable to connect a Late 2013 rMBP to a 2009 iMac? Can I use a male to male Mini Displayport cable to connect a Late 2013 rMBP to a 2009 iMac?
I want to use the 2009 iMac as a secondary display for the rMBP.
A: My late 2009 iMac works as an external display for my Early 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro, and for my Mid 2014 15" Retina MacBook Pro, using this cable. Both laptops have Thunderbolt; the iMac does not have Thunderbolt.
I don't have a Late 2013 Retina MacBook to test, but it seems reasonable to assume it has the same compatibility. Apple also indicates DisplayPort cables work for the 2009 iMac.
*
*https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
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3eed1613de7096eddb8050dbfb0b7b53b041a3f3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to change the app launched by the Calculator button in iOS 7? iOS 7 introduced the swipe-up Control Center which has a dedicated Calculator button (on iPhone, but not iPad). For those of us who consider the default four-function Calculator app inadequate, is there a way to make that button launch a different calculator app instead?
If applicable, jailbreak answers are valid but I'm looking for a non-jailbreak solution.
A: No.
These apps would then also accessible from the lock screen which would open a whole can of worms about security. Even the standard Apple apps do have problems with that sometimes, it would be even worse with 3rd party apps.
| Q: Is it possible to change the app launched by the Calculator button in iOS 7? iOS 7 introduced the swipe-up Control Center which has a dedicated Calculator button (on iPhone, but not iPad). For those of us who consider the default four-function Calculator app inadequate, is there a way to make that button launch a different calculator app instead?
If applicable, jailbreak answers are valid but I'm looking for a non-jailbreak solution.
A: No.
These apps would then also accessible from the lock screen which would open a whole can of worms about security. Even the standard Apple apps do have problems with that sometimes, it would be even worse with 3rd party apps.
A: No, iOS 7 does not allow you to change what each Control Center icon does. Plus, there are no jailbreaks yet for iOS 7, which means currently there is no way to do this. You can track the status of available jailbreaks at jailbrea.kr, which is managed by the iPhone Dev Team.
A: You can't change the button but... Open the calculator then turn your phone sideways to landscape view. Voila, scientific calculator!
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7c6e1fefeb199dbc6aa443676cd7a80407c603eb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Proxy @ work, no proxy @ home I own a MacBookAir and surf great from home (wi-fi with WPA2).
From time to time, I'd want to bring it at work where I have a connection through proxy (i know address and port).
If I do save the settings when I am at work, will I have to reopen settings page and remove proxy setting when reconnecting from home?
A: You can configure two locations in your network settings and then configure the proxy for your work location in the advanced settings.
| Q: Proxy @ work, no proxy @ home I own a MacBookAir and surf great from home (wi-fi with WPA2).
From time to time, I'd want to bring it at work where I have a connection through proxy (i know address and port).
If I do save the settings when I am at work, will I have to reopen settings page and remove proxy setting when reconnecting from home?
A: You can configure two locations in your network settings and then configure the proxy for your work location in the advanced settings.
A: You can setup two different network locations, one for home (no proxy) and one for work (with the proxy) and easily switch between them from the Apple menu.
*
*Go to System Preferences > Network from the Apple menu
*In the Locations dropdown, choose Edit Locations...
*Click the "+" button to add a new location (call it "home" or any other name) and click Done
*With this location chosen in the dropdown, modify your network settings (by clicking the Advanced button) and click Apply
*In the Locations dropdown, choose Edit Locations...
*Click the "+" button to add a new location (call it "work" or any other name) and click Done
*With this location chosen in the dropdown, modify your network settings with the proxy (by clicking the Advanced button) and click Apply
*You can switch between locations (i.e., network configurations) by going to the Apple menu and then to the Locations submenu, where you can choose the network configuration that you have setup for that location
See Making new locations in the Using network locations Apple support page.
A: There are three ways to deal with this, at least, so you don't have to enable/disable the proxy depending on your location.
*
*When you click the Apple menu in the top left corner of your menu bar, you'll see "Locations" menu item, and in there, by default, you should have two locations: Automatic and Manual. You can just create another location (e.g. "Work") which has everything configured in the exact same way as your current location, with the exception of the proxy. All you'll need to do when coming into work is to choose that location, and when going back home, choose the other one. This method is still manual, but requires less clicks, and doesn't require any external software.
*You can use excellent program called ControlPlane which allows you to automate some tasks depending on your surroundings (e.g. WiFi networks visible, IP address assigned, Bluetooth devices visible, etc). It will allow you to change default printers, enable/disable proxies and all sorts of other things. The only problem I've sometimes had with it is it wouldn't set the default printer correctly, but all other actions worked great.
*Lastly, your DHCP server in work can be configured to send the proxy details to either your machine only (based on the MAC address) or to all machines. As far as I remember, DHCP server uses Option 252 to inform clients of the proxy settings. The DHCP server, along with option 252, should pass the URL of the proxy configuration file. If you google this up, you'll get a better explanation, I just wanted to highlight this method too. This method doesn't require users to make any changes to their machines at all, however it will need the Network Administrator to change the configuration of the DHCP server and to prepare the proxy configuration file.
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3fc4b6c314b84b245ec09fe4bb20987d545caef7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: CLI to copy to clipboard but still output to term ? I know that piping to pbcopy copies command line outputs to the clipboard.
How can I still show the output in the terminal ?
A: The tool of choice is called tee. Full description is available via man tee but you canprobably just use
echo test | tee >(pbcopy)
to get the result you are looking for.
| Q: CLI to copy to clipboard but still output to term ? I know that piping to pbcopy copies command line outputs to the clipboard.
How can I still show the output in the terminal ?
A: The tool of choice is called tee. Full description is available via man tee but you canprobably just use
echo test | tee >(pbcopy)
to get the result you are looking for.
A: You could just pbpaste immediately after.
echo test | pbcopy | pbpaste
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d9448a2478bd8e16a30dbb9a51a9f19be650011a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is the iPhone 5 magnetic on the back near the camera lens? The iPhone 5 magnetic enough on the back near the camera lens to attach a staple to. Why there is a magnet there and what it is for?
A: It's very likely to be the speaker. Because yes, speaker use magnets.
It's on opposite side of the top speaker only and looking at this picture (courtesy of iFixit's iPhone teardown) there is nothing else that is magnetic.
| Q: Why is the iPhone 5 magnetic on the back near the camera lens? The iPhone 5 magnetic enough on the back near the camera lens to attach a staple to. Why there is a magnet there and what it is for?
A: It's very likely to be the speaker. Because yes, speaker use magnets.
It's on opposite side of the top speaker only and looking at this picture (courtesy of iFixit's iPhone teardown) there is nothing else that is magnetic.
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403d9363b5c5a2ac9fb8419687a9e9db2641f70c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Homebrew warning: "No developer tools installed" even though Xcode is installed After installing Homebrew the "brew doctor" command returns:
Warning: No developer tools installed.
You should install the Command Line Tools.
Run `xcode-select --install` to install them.
…and I do have Xcode installed.
Anyway, after running xcode-select --install the Xcode installer appears, then I click "install" and the installer closes.
Is this normal? …and do I have to install Git from Homebrew, or can I use the one that comes with Xcode?
A: Yes, it is perfectly normal for homebrew to prompt you to install Xcode. That happened to me right after I installed Mavericks.
As for your question about git, it depends a lot on your usage. Default git (and almost every other tools) are not of the latest version. If you're OK with that, then of course you can just use the default one.
| Q: Homebrew warning: "No developer tools installed" even though Xcode is installed After installing Homebrew the "brew doctor" command returns:
Warning: No developer tools installed.
You should install the Command Line Tools.
Run `xcode-select --install` to install them.
…and I do have Xcode installed.
Anyway, after running xcode-select --install the Xcode installer appears, then I click "install" and the installer closes.
Is this normal? …and do I have to install Git from Homebrew, or can I use the one that comes with Xcode?
A: Yes, it is perfectly normal for homebrew to prompt you to install Xcode. That happened to me right after I installed Mavericks.
As for your question about git, it depends a lot on your usage. Default git (and almost every other tools) are not of the latest version. If you're OK with that, then of course you can just use the default one.
A: Xcode itself isn't what i needed to install, it was Specifically the "Xcode Command Line Tools", apparently thats a different thing...
A: If you have Xcode installed this warning also appear even if make and gc is succesfully provided by Xcode itself. In this case you can just ignore this warning.
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784003e899c27d7447a4d918b05755a57db90d4a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Outlook 2011: Keyboard shortcut to assign categories? In Outlook 2011, is there some way to assign keyboard shortcuts to specific categories, so I can categorize messages without having to use the mouse to select the drop-down from the Categories menu in the Ribbon?
A: Yes, you can do this.
*
*Open System Preferences.
*Select Keyboard.
*Select Keyboard Shortcuts.
*Select Application Shortcuts in the left navigation pane.
*Click the + button to create a new shortcut.
*Choose Microsoft Outlook.app in the Application drop-down menu.
*Enter the exact name of the menu command you want to add. E.g. for an Outlook category named "Project X" enter that category name, "Project X."
*Click in the Keyboard Shortcut field and press a unique keyboard sequence such as Control-Option-T.
*Click the Add button.
For some more ideas about how you could add keyboard shortcuts to Outlook:Mac, check out "Unleash new uses for keyboard commands in Outlook for Mac" in the Office:Mac Help Blog.
| Q: Outlook 2011: Keyboard shortcut to assign categories? In Outlook 2011, is there some way to assign keyboard shortcuts to specific categories, so I can categorize messages without having to use the mouse to select the drop-down from the Categories menu in the Ribbon?
A: Yes, you can do this.
*
*Open System Preferences.
*Select Keyboard.
*Select Keyboard Shortcuts.
*Select Application Shortcuts in the left navigation pane.
*Click the + button to create a new shortcut.
*Choose Microsoft Outlook.app in the Application drop-down menu.
*Enter the exact name of the menu command you want to add. E.g. for an Outlook category named "Project X" enter that category name, "Project X."
*Click in the Keyboard Shortcut field and press a unique keyboard sequence such as Control-Option-T.
*Click the Add button.
For some more ideas about how you could add keyboard shortcuts to Outlook:Mac, check out "Unleash new uses for keyboard commands in Outlook for Mac" in the Office:Mac Help Blog.
A: I had mixed results with the above method. It would work once, and then just scroll to the last email received in my list after that. However, I launched Automator (in Applications folder) and created a service (looks like a gear) from the new workflow menu. From there it only took 2 actions from the several Outlook choices included in Automator:
• Get Selected Outlook Items
• Set Category of Outlook Items
Drag these items to the workflow area and select the Category from the dropdown. Save and and name this workflow. Then, select Services > Services Preferences... from the program name in the title menu, scroll to your named workflow and double-click to the right to assign a keyboard shortcut.
The only downfall is that this shortcut will work from anywhere, I will try to isolate it to work ONLY when using Outlook later.
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8a03a1f9e5c724b8f9a2fd9f82c69a3c5e517c22 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can OS X dump cores in the working directory instead of /cores? I don't know when it started, but at some point, OS X started dumping cores into a special folder (/cores). This is a pain since they get jumbled together and it's hard to keep track of which core files goes with which execution. Is there an environment variable or special flag I can set to have cores dumped into the working directory (as with other operating systems) instead?
A: I finally figured this out. It turns out that this is a kernel parameter controlled by sysctl. You can set this on a per shell basis to dump in the current working directory with:
sysctl -w kern.corefile=core.%P
Since I never wanted my core dumps to end up in /cores, but always in the current directory, I added this plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/:
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>sysctl</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/sysctl</string>
<string>-w</string>
<string>kern.corefile=core.%P</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
UPDATE:
Since I wrote this, it looks like the sysctl command changed. I've updated the examples above, but if you were previously using kern.core_pattern, that doesn't work anymore.
| Q: Can OS X dump cores in the working directory instead of /cores? I don't know when it started, but at some point, OS X started dumping cores into a special folder (/cores). This is a pain since they get jumbled together and it's hard to keep track of which core files goes with which execution. Is there an environment variable or special flag I can set to have cores dumped into the working directory (as with other operating systems) instead?
A: I finally figured this out. It turns out that this is a kernel parameter controlled by sysctl. You can set this on a per shell basis to dump in the current working directory with:
sysctl -w kern.corefile=core.%P
Since I never wanted my core dumps to end up in /cores, but always in the current directory, I added this plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/:
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>sysctl</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/sysctl</string>
<string>-w</string>
<string>kern.corefile=core.%P</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
UPDATE:
Since I wrote this, it looks like the sysctl command changed. I've updated the examples above, but if you were previously using kern.core_pattern, that doesn't work anymore.
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2ab7d2786f08be5e62c35ae49bed992bfd2e2380 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: CalendarAgent keeps asking for access to "login" after reboot I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.5... and every time I restart my computer or log-out & back in, I get a message box saying that
"CalendarAgent wants to use "login" keychain".
I've tried repairing the keychain... didn't work.
I've tried setting all names in the login keychain to "Allow all applications to access this keychain".... didn't work.
I've tried deleting the keychain and setting all passwords again... didn't work.
This is beyond frustrating at this point. The only I can seem to get it to quit asking me this is if I delete my exchange account from calendar and quit using it altogether.
Are there any other suggestions on how to fix this?
A: What I would do in this situation is rename the "login" keychain in ~/Library/Keychains to something like login.keychain.old.
Then I would open the Keychain Access app and drag login.keychain.old into the keychains sidebar. OS X will create a new login keychain. So all you have to do is open the old login keychain list you created and drag the passwords into the new login keychain.
Hope this helps.
| Q: CalendarAgent keeps asking for access to "login" after reboot I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.5... and every time I restart my computer or log-out & back in, I get a message box saying that
"CalendarAgent wants to use "login" keychain".
I've tried repairing the keychain... didn't work.
I've tried setting all names in the login keychain to "Allow all applications to access this keychain".... didn't work.
I've tried deleting the keychain and setting all passwords again... didn't work.
This is beyond frustrating at this point. The only I can seem to get it to quit asking me this is if I delete my exchange account from calendar and quit using it altogether.
Are there any other suggestions on how to fix this?
A: What I would do in this situation is rename the "login" keychain in ~/Library/Keychains to something like login.keychain.old.
Then I would open the Keychain Access app and drag login.keychain.old into the keychains sidebar. OS X will create a new login keychain. So all you have to do is open the old login keychain list you created and drag the passwords into the new login keychain.
Hope this helps.
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fc22d11901c7bd3338b8ac0535160dfc5b7186f3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I turn off the gamed service or more generally, any service? Yeah, bought a Macbook Retina, come from a Linux background where this stuff is usually a question of removing via the package manager.
Anyhow, I don't play games on this, it's purely for business/development. But I keep seeing this gamed process that came down with the Mavericks update trying to phone home.
Apart from software update, I don't really want any process phoning home, especially when I paid 2G for the damned thing.
Anyhow, anyone know how I can disable/uninstall/kill this process for good?
A: I'm not sure how to completely disable the process but I've set up Little Snitch to disallow incoming / outgoing processes associated with the Game Center. It's a useful little program.
| Q: How can I turn off the gamed service or more generally, any service? Yeah, bought a Macbook Retina, come from a Linux background where this stuff is usually a question of removing via the package manager.
Anyhow, I don't play games on this, it's purely for business/development. But I keep seeing this gamed process that came down with the Mavericks update trying to phone home.
Apart from software update, I don't really want any process phoning home, especially when I paid 2G for the damned thing.
Anyhow, anyone know how I can disable/uninstall/kill this process for good?
A: I'm not sure how to completely disable the process but I've set up Little Snitch to disallow incoming / outgoing processes associated with the Game Center. It's a useful little program.
A: Specifically for the gamed service, the following command in one of the posts about a similar topic on the Apple Support Communities worked for me, without any need to modify plists or rename files:
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed disabled -bool true
Changing "true" back to "false" will re-enable it, although I've not tried it.
A: The first thing to do is open the damn thing and log out of Game Center, and delete whatever it still filled in.
A: This is a cheap hack:
sudo mv /System/Library/Frameworks/GameKit.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/gamed /System/Library/Frameworks/GameKit.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/gamed.inactive
A: In Yosemite 10.10.3 the gamed process can be found in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GameCenterFoundation.framework/Versions/A/gamed.
I needed to rename the process to get rid of it, the defaults write and unload suggestions didn't work.
A: Apple really wants this service to run:
# pwd
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GameCenterFoundation.framework/Versions/A
# mv gamed gamed.disabled
mv: rename gamed to gamed.disabled: Operation not permitted
# rm gamed
override rwxr-xr-x root/wheel restricted,compressed for gamed? y
rm: gamed: Operation not permitted
# ls -l gamed
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4430368 Jul 9 04:51 gamed
This was on El Capitan 10.11.6
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55c2413fabf6f7a19f87854aeebb3b8e738198ca | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Finder Search (spotlight) not finding all relevant results I'm trying to remove an application manually by deleting it and any extras using the search function in Finder.
As a backup, I also ran the app through AppCleaner to see if it caught anything as well and I noticed that AppCleaner marked some files (.plist, plist.lockfile, and some actual folders) that no matter what keyword I use won't show up via finder search.
My settings are to search 'My Mac' and have made sure system files are included and used both 'name matches' & 'name contains' but I can't pull up these files. I have already rebuilt the spotlight index and don't know what else to do when a custom search that explicitly includes system files doesn't yield the expected results.
Did finder search change in os 10.9?
A: The Spotlight window does not include files treated as system files by default. Try setting "System files" to "are included":
Or use mdfind:
$ mdfind -name tweetbot
/Applications/Tweetbot.app
/Users/lauri/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/Tweetbot_4C49445B-E14E-51E5-87DC-7CE59AE6A841.plist
/Users/lauri/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac/Data/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/Tweetbot_4C49445B-E14E-51E5-87DC-7CE59AE6A841.plist
/Users/lauri/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac/Data/Library/Application Support/Tweetbot
/Users/lauri/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac
/Users/lauri/Library/Speech/Speakable Items/Application Speakable Items/Tweetbot
/Users/lauri/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac.plist
| Q: Finder Search (spotlight) not finding all relevant results I'm trying to remove an application manually by deleting it and any extras using the search function in Finder.
As a backup, I also ran the app through AppCleaner to see if it caught anything as well and I noticed that AppCleaner marked some files (.plist, plist.lockfile, and some actual folders) that no matter what keyword I use won't show up via finder search.
My settings are to search 'My Mac' and have made sure system files are included and used both 'name matches' & 'name contains' but I can't pull up these files. I have already rebuilt the spotlight index and don't know what else to do when a custom search that explicitly includes system files doesn't yield the expected results.
Did finder search change in os 10.9?
A: The Spotlight window does not include files treated as system files by default. Try setting "System files" to "are included":
Or use mdfind:
$ mdfind -name tweetbot
/Applications/Tweetbot.app
/Users/lauri/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/Tweetbot_4C49445B-E14E-51E5-87DC-7CE59AE6A841.plist
/Users/lauri/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac/Data/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/Tweetbot_4C49445B-E14E-51E5-87DC-7CE59AE6A841.plist
/Users/lauri/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac/Data/Library/Application Support/Tweetbot
/Users/lauri/Library/Containers/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac
/Users/lauri/Library/Speech/Speakable Items/Application Speakable Items/Tweetbot
/Users/lauri/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.tapbots.TweetbotMac.plist
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a43148850426bdf64023861f9ec3005ba1ff1b80 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I update an Mac App purchased by a different Apple ID? At work we have one Mac laptop that everyone uses to compile and test our iOS app. The employee who originally installed XCode used his personal Apple ID, and has since left the company.
When I log in to the App Store on this PC, I can download new apps (including the Mavericks update) but when I try to update an existing app, especially XCode, it always brings up the login prompt, with the user id field disabled and prefilled with his Apple ID.
Can I update XCode without his Apple ID password?
A: No. You need his username and password to update.
As alternative you can create an account for your company, and then download Xcode again.
| Q: Can I update an Mac App purchased by a different Apple ID? At work we have one Mac laptop that everyone uses to compile and test our iOS app. The employee who originally installed XCode used his personal Apple ID, and has since left the company.
When I log in to the App Store on this PC, I can download new apps (including the Mavericks update) but when I try to update an existing app, especially XCode, it always brings up the login prompt, with the user id field disabled and prefilled with his Apple ID.
Can I update XCode without his Apple ID password?
A: No. You need his username and password to update.
As alternative you can create an account for your company, and then download Xcode again.
A: I recently ran into this issue in a different context. I changed my developer appleID and had xCode registered under the defunct one. When I upgraded to Mavericks, Xcode wouldn't update, since I'd downloaded it from the Apple store under defunct AppleID.
I removed the association with the defunct appleID by removing the receipt from Xcode:
*
*Control-click Xcode app and "show package contents".
*Move the _MASReceipt directory to the trash in order to dis-associate Xcode with the old AppleID (you'll need your Mac's admin password).
*Restart Apple store and "install" (rather than upgrade).
The net effect: Xcode will "install" (upgrade) but under your preferred AppleID.
You do NOT need your ex-employee's personal AppleID account for this, but you do need admin rights on the machine.
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c0908468d1d1cf5f4b3ca28b0cd5648f0ac4ba6f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is restoring a Time Machine backup on a clean install of OS X Mavericks still a 'clean' install? I would like to upgrade to OS X Mavericks. Also, I think it would be a good chance to clean up my system.
My question is: If do a clean install of OS X Mavericks and then restore my machine from a Time Machine backup, then…
*
*would this still be "clean"? …or would this just be the same as upgrading my system the regular way?
*will I lose any data/settings/apps?
Thank you guys for your help!
A: If you reinstall 10.9, don’t choose "Restore from Time Machine Backup". Make a simple install after you reformatted your drive with Disk Utility.
After the install, the setup process will start and you can choose if you want to restore from Time Machine. I would recommend you to deselect the System to restore, just your home directory and your applications. So you will just restore your data (docs, music, pics), your applications settings (~/Library) and the application bundles from /Application.
This the closest you can get to a "clean" install, without manually migrating your data and setup again every single app.
| Q: Is restoring a Time Machine backup on a clean install of OS X Mavericks still a 'clean' install? I would like to upgrade to OS X Mavericks. Also, I think it would be a good chance to clean up my system.
My question is: If do a clean install of OS X Mavericks and then restore my machine from a Time Machine backup, then…
*
*would this still be "clean"? …or would this just be the same as upgrading my system the regular way?
*will I lose any data/settings/apps?
Thank you guys for your help!
A: If you reinstall 10.9, don’t choose "Restore from Time Machine Backup". Make a simple install after you reformatted your drive with Disk Utility.
After the install, the setup process will start and you can choose if you want to restore from Time Machine. I would recommend you to deselect the System to restore, just your home directory and your applications. So you will just restore your data (docs, music, pics), your applications settings (~/Library) and the application bundles from /Application.
This the closest you can get to a "clean" install, without manually migrating your data and setup again every single app.
A: Absolutely. A clean install is one where the core OS comes from a valid installer. Past that, you can test the system for whatever level of "fitness" you require and only move users, user data and third party apps from a backup in a controlled manner if desired.
I like to look at the loss of data in the opposite direction. When that installation goes badly, the loss has typically already happened. If you don't have a backup and restore system where by you can get back to the pre-upgrade status, you might not want to change anything on the system as you can't really recover from a random failure at that point either - let alone have a good option if the software you have installed isn't compatible with the new OS.
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302fcff6b653c5c2c26f80451920dea34060e591 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable Dock Shadow in Mavericks
Am I the only one, or is there anyone else who finds that shadow ontop of a nearby window annoying?
A: You must run this:
defaults write com.apple.dock hide-mirror -bool true; killall Dock
This enables a more transparent dock but also removes the annoying shadow.
Note: this fix is specifically for OS X Mavericks
| Q: Disable Dock Shadow in Mavericks
Am I the only one, or is there anyone else who finds that shadow ontop of a nearby window annoying?
A: You must run this:
defaults write com.apple.dock hide-mirror -bool true; killall Dock
This enables a more transparent dock but also removes the annoying shadow.
Note: this fix is specifically for OS X Mavericks
A: Try …
In Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock showshadow -bool NO
– then quit Dock.
Reference
Blacktree Secrets secret 2342.
Hint
The preference pane for Secrets can write the preference and perform the quit.
If the preference does not work as expected, for your Dock to the left
Please be aware of the following bug report in Open Radar –
OS X Mavericks: Left/right Dock should not cast a shadow on windows
– but note that the report was for unreleased build 13A538g of the OS (not for 13A603).
A: Disable totally:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true
EDIT: This is only for screenshot function.
Haven't tried it, but this
app
should have an option for disable totally.
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f7f25a0f9ca07ade0883b334186cf3c500ee8f6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing Metadata of an Epub in iBooks How can I edit the metadata of an Epub file? I would like to alter the title, author, and cover art, similar to how I was able to do so in iTunes (get info).
A: Just started using iBooks on Mac tonight. I was worried about the same thing.
Here's what works:
*
*Go to List view in iBooks »
*Click once on a book (anywhere on the line) »
*Wait a couple of seconds »
*Click once on the data that you want to change or enter »
*That entry will become editable
You can edit anything: Title, Author, Category, etc. Voilà!
| Q: Changing Metadata of an Epub in iBooks How can I edit the metadata of an Epub file? I would like to alter the title, author, and cover art, similar to how I was able to do so in iTunes (get info).
A: Just started using iBooks on Mac tonight. I was worried about the same thing.
Here's what works:
*
*Go to List view in iBooks »
*Click once on a book (anywhere on the line) »
*Wait a couple of seconds »
*Click once on the data that you want to change or enter »
*That entry will become editable
You can edit anything: Title, Author, Category, etc. Voilà!
A: The current version 1.0.1 of iBooks stores your PDF and epub files in the folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books so you should be able to edit the files with the usual suspects.
Additionally, you might still be able add files to iTunes, make the changes you wish and then use iBooks -> File -> Move Books from iTunes to bring your modified titles into the iBooks storage sandbox.
A: You can use a piece of software called Calibre to edit the metadata of an epub and then reimport it to iBooks, as long as it was not purchased at a store that uses DRM.
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b39253a36e780291b131f5541979bb532a02153d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Restore functionality of Escape key in Finder (Mavericks) It's always been possible to remove focus from all selected files in Finder by pressing the ⎋ Escape key. It would appear that this is no longer possible in OS X Mavericks. I navigate the Finder entirely via keyboard and using ⎋ Escape is something I do quite frequently.
I've looked at nearly every preference pane I could think of as well as the contents of com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.systempreferences.plist, and com.apple.universalaccess.plist, but no luck so far (or I'm just not seeing it).
Any ideas?
A: Right shortcut is: CmdOpt-A
In System Preferences > Keyboard > App Shortcut
you can create your custom shortcut, only for Finder if you want (You must use at least combination of cmd or option or maiusc + another key).
| Q: Restore functionality of Escape key in Finder (Mavericks) It's always been possible to remove focus from all selected files in Finder by pressing the ⎋ Escape key. It would appear that this is no longer possible in OS X Mavericks. I navigate the Finder entirely via keyboard and using ⎋ Escape is something I do quite frequently.
I've looked at nearly every preference pane I could think of as well as the contents of com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.systempreferences.plist, and com.apple.universalaccess.plist, but no luck so far (or I'm just not seeing it).
Any ideas?
A: Right shortcut is: CmdOpt-A
In System Preferences > Keyboard > App Shortcut
you can create your custom shortcut, only for Finder if you want (You must use at least combination of cmd or option or maiusc + another key).
A: Download and install the free & excellent KeyRemap4MacBook software:
https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/
Open its main preference window then choose the Misc & Uninstall tab
Follow the steps described at
https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/document.html.en#privatexml
using this snippet as the content for private.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>Finder: Escape to Deselect All (Cmd-Opt-D)</name>
<identifier>private.app_finder_escape_to_Deselect_All</identifier>
<only>FINDER</only>
<autogen>
__KeyToKey__
KeyCode::ESCAPE, ModifierFlag::NONE,
KeyCode::A, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L | ModifierFlag::OPTION_L
</autogen>
</item>
</root>
After pressing the ReloadXML find the new mapping and turn it on, and enjoy.
PS. Don't forget to remove any custom keyboard shortcut from Finder's Deselect All… from System Preferences/Keyboard/Shortcuts/App Shortcuts/Finder/Deselect All… if you tried solving this problem this way.
A: Please check Keyboard Maestro… :)
A: As a solution to this Problem I use the following AppleScript:
tell application "Finder"
if selection is [] then
tell application "System Events" to key code 36 using control down
else
set selection to []
end if
end tell
The script implements the following logic:
*
*If there is no file or folder selected in Finder then this script tries to escape from a possible rename operation if there is one (beeps if there is none).
*If there are files or folders selected in Finder then this script deselects them.
I use FastScripts from Red Sweater Software to remap the escape key in Finder to this script. FastScripts installs a script menu in the menubar and is free for use with up to 10 scripts.
With both parts together the behaviour of the escape key is similar to the escape key behaviour in older macOS versions.
A: This is a great utility for mapping new shortcuts… http://www.keyboardmaestro.com
PS thanks for the ⌘ + ⌥ + A
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9649cf49638bae0bc145a7e0de9dc2b5be547beb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I restrict download when my macbook is being hot spotted? I plan to stick an NFC tag on my macbook so that I can just click my phone on it to create a Wifi Hotspot which my laptop will automatically connect to.
The only problem I can think of though is that I have restricted data on my phone plan therefore I don't want the laptop to be doing anything like syncing with my dropbox, downloading system updates etc.
Is there a way I can configure the macbook so that if using a certain WIFI network, it will restrict the traffic to only web browsing traffic.
A: Little Snitch
Little Snitch has profiles that you can switch to which can contain custom network rules.
For example, you can create one profile that is bound to your home network that allows all incoming/outgoing connections for all applications, then create a second profile that allows all connections for Safari, but blocks all connections from other apps.
Alternatively, you can request that applications ask for connection when not connected to your home network.
These profiles can be switched through the menu bar icon, or automatically upon joining a certain network.
| Q: Can I restrict download when my macbook is being hot spotted? I plan to stick an NFC tag on my macbook so that I can just click my phone on it to create a Wifi Hotspot which my laptop will automatically connect to.
The only problem I can think of though is that I have restricted data on my phone plan therefore I don't want the laptop to be doing anything like syncing with my dropbox, downloading system updates etc.
Is there a way I can configure the macbook so that if using a certain WIFI network, it will restrict the traffic to only web browsing traffic.
A: Little Snitch
Little Snitch has profiles that you can switch to which can contain custom network rules.
For example, you can create one profile that is bound to your home network that allows all incoming/outgoing connections for all applications, then create a second profile that allows all connections for Safari, but blocks all connections from other apps.
Alternatively, you can request that applications ask for connection when not connected to your home network.
These profiles can be switched through the menu bar icon, or automatically upon joining a certain network.
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76e15b04eb05993def403952ddda5af3d215ddd9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to find and unmount unresponsive NFS mounts? I turned off a machine exporting one folder which was mounted on my Mac using NFS.
How can I find and unmount the mount point ?
df does not return; it is probably stuck on this mount point, and I can't find a way to enumerate NFS mount points.
A: The mount command on the command line should give a list of all mounts, along with the mount point and the used file system, so nfs mounts can be identified as such.
| Q: How to find and unmount unresponsive NFS mounts? I turned off a machine exporting one folder which was mounted on my Mac using NFS.
How can I find and unmount the mount point ?
df does not return; it is probably stuck on this mount point, and I can't find a way to enumerate NFS mount points.
A: The mount command on the command line should give a list of all mounts, along with the mount point and the used file system, so nfs mounts can be identified as such.
A: This command gave me useful informations:
$ sudo lsof | grep -i warning
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() nfs file system /Volumes/antData
Output information may be incomplete.
assuming "dev=1a000005" from mount table
This gave me the mount point on the local machine, which I used as an argument to umount -f
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d65b60f62595b25dde72458d02adbfcde40df7f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use my Macbook Pro Retina as extra monitor for my iMac through Thunderbolt I just bought a new late 2013 iMac and a new late 2013 Macbook Pro retina. Also bought an Apple thunderbolt cable.
Pressing CMD+F2 (enabling Apples "Target Display Mode") on my iMac lets me use the iMac as external monitor for the MB Pro, but I'd like it the other way around (which doesn't seem to work).
Does anyone know how I through Thunderbolt (for speed, am aware that apps like Air Display and Screen Recycler can do it through WiFi) so that my MB Pro becomes an extra external monitor for my iMac?
While this question addresses this problem for earlier hardware and software, I'm looking for a solution that supports using a thunderbolt cable and works with late 2013 Macs with OS X Mavericks.
A: If you really don't want to do it over the network, the retina MBP's display uses DisplayPort internally. You could disassemble your machine and use this pinout to connect it via Thunderbolt.
| Q: Can I use my Macbook Pro Retina as extra monitor for my iMac through Thunderbolt I just bought a new late 2013 iMac and a new late 2013 Macbook Pro retina. Also bought an Apple thunderbolt cable.
Pressing CMD+F2 (enabling Apples "Target Display Mode") on my iMac lets me use the iMac as external monitor for the MB Pro, but I'd like it the other way around (which doesn't seem to work).
Does anyone know how I through Thunderbolt (for speed, am aware that apps like Air Display and Screen Recycler can do it through WiFi) so that my MB Pro becomes an extra external monitor for my iMac?
While this question addresses this problem for earlier hardware and software, I'm looking for a solution that supports using a thunderbolt cable and works with late 2013 Macs with OS X Mavericks.
A: If you really don't want to do it over the network, the retina MBP's display uses DisplayPort internally. You could disassemble your machine and use this pinout to connect it via Thunderbolt.
A: Target Display Mode is right out since the hardware doesn't support it. What about using one of the networked applications (Air Display, Screen Recycler, etc) and running it over Thunderbolt instead of WiFi? If you have two Macs connected by a Thunderbolt cable, there's a Thunderbolt Bridge network interface that runs at 10Gbps, which might solve your speed problem.
I don't have a TB cable to test with, but I believe the bridge is enabled by default and you should be able to just get the IP for it from Network Preferences (it should automatically pick something in the 169.254.x.y range). If the app you're using typically handles finding the server automatically, you might have to find the option to enter the IP manually to force it to run over the thunderbolt interface.
Here's an example of someone using this. Note that only one of the Thunderbolt ports on each device might be usable for this purpose, so if the interface doesn't seem to be connected, try the other port.
A: With Maverick you can set up the network accross Thunderbolt. Be sure both machines are Thunderbolt and make sure to add the "Network" interface in "System Preferences". Then you can use AirServer on the Retina but not sure the latency will be great (as sending the image using TCP)…
A: According to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924, no. But it might be done with Screen Recycler. As far as I know, Apple has no official support for this.
A: I was going to just leave a comment to existing answer, but I don't have enough reputation for that, so I'll just write it here.
I'm running AirServer on my MacBook Pro, and I'm using it as a AirPlay monitor for my much more powerful hackintosh desktop.
I can confirm that when using gigabit lan instead of wifi, performance goes up and latency goes down noticeably (it's still not as good as direct hdmi cable though)
I've just purchased 2m thunderbolt cable and going to check if it will bring any improvement over gigabit lan.
Another option would be using USB3 HDMI capture card, like this one (haven't tried that myself yet)
Also Nexdock is about to release their generation 2 model, which hopefully will be exactly what we are waiting/looking for.
A: If you want it so you can do KVM access to Mac mini then I suggest you look at "Remote Desktop". Much more convenient than video target mode as you can have multiple VNC connections open simultaneously.
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597d5cafbe0ae7e28c94ee98b57ae0d0412578ae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iMovie 10 (Mavericks): Altering the duration of imported pictures (stills) In earlier versions of iMovie, you could relatively easily import still pictures and alter their duration to create slide show. However, in the latest release, iMovie 10, this ability seems to have disappeared or at least moved. If I import a series of pictures (PDF format), I can use 'Adjust' to see a duration of the form '1.0 s of 0.9 s'. I can type in the '1.0' part but not the '0.9' part, and changes are not reflected in the movie. In particular, I want to set durations of several seconds or even minutes: how do I do this in the latest version?
A: *
*⌘-click on all the pictures that you want to adjust the timing of in the timeline.
*Go to Window → Show Adjustments Bar or press 3.
*Select the info button on the adjustments bar.
*Enter the duration into the box on the right and press Enter.
This will change the duration of all the selected clips (or in this case, pictures).
| Q: iMovie 10 (Mavericks): Altering the duration of imported pictures (stills) In earlier versions of iMovie, you could relatively easily import still pictures and alter their duration to create slide show. However, in the latest release, iMovie 10, this ability seems to have disappeared or at least moved. If I import a series of pictures (PDF format), I can use 'Adjust' to see a duration of the form '1.0 s of 0.9 s'. I can type in the '1.0' part but not the '0.9' part, and changes are not reflected in the movie. In particular, I want to set durations of several seconds or even minutes: how do I do this in the latest version?
A: *
*⌘-click on all the pictures that you want to adjust the timing of in the timeline.
*Go to Window → Show Adjustments Bar or press 3.
*Select the info button on the adjustments bar.
*Enter the duration into the box on the right and press Enter.
This will change the duration of all the selected clips (or in this case, pictures).
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dc808df69ccb6fb0bd6845d1f80f87e0df58cd15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sync iOS iBooks to OS X iBooks Is there a way to sync the iBooks that were not purchased from iTunes on my iOS device with my OS X iBooks? Specifically, I have some PDFS I'd like to sync.
Please note I am seeking to synchronize the books themselves, not just highlights and notes.
A: I have a similar problem. Non-iBook store epubs don't sync with iOS devices, no matter what options are switched on/off.
Looking at the directory they're now stored on in Mavericks (~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books), they seem to have been converted to a different format (from .epub to a folder with xml/html files), and i suspect that's why they don't sync.
Any suggestions on how to sync these would be most appreciated!
EDIT: To answer my own question, check that iTunes is actually syncing all books. It had changed my previous preference to selected books, and preferentially un-ticked all non-iBook store epubs. Changing that fixed the syncing problem for me...
| Q: Sync iOS iBooks to OS X iBooks Is there a way to sync the iBooks that were not purchased from iTunes on my iOS device with my OS X iBooks? Specifically, I have some PDFS I'd like to sync.
Please note I am seeking to synchronize the books themselves, not just highlights and notes.
A: I have a similar problem. Non-iBook store epubs don't sync with iOS devices, no matter what options are switched on/off.
Looking at the directory they're now stored on in Mavericks (~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books), they seem to have been converted to a different format (from .epub to a folder with xml/html files), and i suspect that's why they don't sync.
Any suggestions on how to sync these would be most appreciated!
EDIT: To answer my own question, check that iTunes is actually syncing all books. It had changed my previous preference to selected books, and preferentially un-ticked all non-iBook store epubs. Changing that fixed the syncing problem for me...
A: You absolutely can sync notes and highlights for ePubs not purchased from iTunes when using iBooks on your Mac and iOS devices.
Here is how:
*
*Place your not-purchased ePubs in iBooks on your Mac.
*Connect your iOS device to your Mac.
*Open iTunes.
*Select your iOS device in the left column.
*Click Books.
*Choose All Books or Selected Books.
*Click Apply to copy the books to your iOS device.
*Repeat steps 2 to 7 for other iOS devices.
*Enable notes and highlights syncing for iBooks on your Mac and each iOS device.
*Make notes and highlights in any of the ePubs you have copied from iBooks on your Mac to your iOS devices. These notes and highlights sync to all other devices.
It is very important to use the same version of the book on you Mac and all of your iOS devices. You cannot download an ePub from Gutenberg to your Mac and then download it again to your iOS device and expect notes and highlights to sync. That probably won't happen. If you think it through, this makes sense because iBooks needs to know for sure which files to use for syncing and file name alone is too imprecise.
A: There are two ways to synchronize your own eBooks/PDFs between iBooks on the Mac and iBooks on an iOS device.
*
*using iTunes
*using iCloud
Short answer: synchronising own eBooks/PDFs doesn't work when iCloud synchronising is turned on on the Mac but not on the iOS device.
Long answer and my experience:
Problem 1: my own eBooks/PDFs were not visible in iTunes
Reason: on the Mac -> System preferences -> iCloud -> iCloud Drive there is a checkmark for iBooks.app.
When this checkmark is checked, iTunes is no longer responsible to synchronise own eBooks/PDFs.
Problem 2: I didn't get my own eBooks/PDFs in my iPad/iPhone
Reason: I did not have the iCloud Drive App from Apple on my iPad.
After downloading the iCloud Drive App, there are a few new options in the iOS preferences:
Preferences -> iCloud ->
*
*iCloud Drive
*iBooks
*and many more
This iBooks option is not available, when the iCloud Drive App is not installed and turned on.
After turning on the iClod Drive option and (after a few seconds) the iBooks option and then starting iBooks, iBooks will ask if you want to use iCloud.
After saying yes, all the own eBooks and PDFs are available for download one by one and controlled from th iOS device.
A: On OS X copying files from the container below will copy the books from your library.
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books
To copy the Highlights and Notes you did, you need to copy the files from
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents/AEAnnotation
A: I found a simple way to transfer PDFs from iBooks to any computer, or app you have on your iDevice... However, you must be jailbroken for this to work.
Here's how:
In Cydia, download and install a file manager like "Filza" (it's in the BigBoss repo)
*
*Note: your iDevice might respring once installed
Solution A) To your computer:
*
*Open Filza
*Click settings icon in the right top corner and enable WebDAV server.
*Open a browser on your computer and navigate to the address given by Filza
*You will find a file manager / ftp like solution. Navigate to "/var/mobile/Media/Books/Purchases" and download pdf files.
Solution B) To another app:
*
*Open Filza and navigate to "/var/mobile/Media/Books/Purchases" without quotes.
*Long press on the file, select "Open in" option that appears and select your app of choice.
Normally it will either copy or link the file to your application. If it's linked , then the original file will stay where it was.
*Alternatively, assuming you use Filza, you can select "Move" (or copy). Then press on the Favorites (star) icon, and tap on "Apps Manager". Find the app of your liking in the list that follows and tap on it.
*Enter the "Documents" folder that you will find, and paste file there.
(Note: sometimes I experience the required folder is called "Inbox")
*Open the app, and start reading.
It's really simple and faster than syncing through iTunes.
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3e252f78f7a620330aed61cd80758c4db1034a74 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sync Wi-Fi Passwords on OS X with Android Phone? I have a MacBook Air, and an Android phone (errr phablet!). I go out a lot with both, and every time I go to a new venue, I need to put the Wi-Fi password into both.
Do you know of an application so that, when I add the Wi-Fi password to one of them, I can sync it to the other?
A: The Android OS doesn't allow apps to modify the wifi settings, unless you have a rooted device. The alternative you have is to use something like Dropbox or Lastpass which allow notes to sync across devices. You can write your long wifi passwords on the desktop, then open the synced file on your mobile phone and copy&paste it into the form. At least that's what I've been doing all this time.
| Q: Sync Wi-Fi Passwords on OS X with Android Phone? I have a MacBook Air, and an Android phone (errr phablet!). I go out a lot with both, and every time I go to a new venue, I need to put the Wi-Fi password into both.
Do you know of an application so that, when I add the Wi-Fi password to one of them, I can sync it to the other?
A: The Android OS doesn't allow apps to modify the wifi settings, unless you have a rooted device. The alternative you have is to use something like Dropbox or Lastpass which allow notes to sync across devices. You can write your long wifi passwords on the desktop, then open the synced file on your mobile phone and copy&paste it into the form. At least that's what I've been doing all this time.
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db3462835ebc3747a9d3189e35f0a412af4bd14d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Mail send only account I have two accounts, a gmail one and a school email address. I want to be able to send emails from my school address and gmail, but receive only from the gmail one (the gmail and school email accounts are synced together so I don't want to get duplicates). is there any way to make only the receive section of an account offline in Mail.app? I'm using OS X 10.9 Mavericks, if that helps. I already turned off automatic receiving for my school email, but if I hit "get mail" all the email from that account gets fetched anyway.
A: Set up a new empty email box (perhaps with server side quota or rules to delete all mail immediately upon receipt).
Enter those credentials as a new account in Mail.app and end the sending credentials and server for this shell account.
Now you can send from the account you want and have no emails coming in.
| Q: Apple Mail send only account I have two accounts, a gmail one and a school email address. I want to be able to send emails from my school address and gmail, but receive only from the gmail one (the gmail and school email accounts are synced together so I don't want to get duplicates). is there any way to make only the receive section of an account offline in Mail.app? I'm using OS X 10.9 Mavericks, if that helps. I already turned off automatic receiving for my school email, but if I hit "get mail" all the email from that account gets fetched anyway.
A: Set up a new empty email box (perhaps with server side quota or rules to delete all mail immediately upon receipt).
Enter those credentials as a new account in Mail.app and end the sending credentials and server for this shell account.
Now you can send from the account you want and have no emails coming in.
A: After tests, I think the least buggy method for Apple's bad implementation is setup gmail with pop3 method in Mac Mail.app and set rules to delete all incoming emails.
There are no rules for iPhone but we can turn off auto fetching.
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286595c9ac11e88c2959a8c8001f2dff46b4273c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Logitech Mouse: how can I use additional buttons? I recently bought a Logitech M560 mouse.
It works fine on my Mac, but I wonder if there's a software/prefpane (free or paid) I can use to map the additional buttons I have on my mouse (i.e. to open dashboard, select line, etc...)
Logitech at the moment offers no support for Mac for this model (I was aware of this when I bought the mouse)
Without any configuration the bottom side button works as "Add bookmark" in Chrome, so I think I can do something for this...
A: According to an answer on a similar question, it's possible to use a program called Karabiner to detect the Logitec Windows-specific keyboard events sent by the M560, and translate them to regular keyboard or mouse button events that tools such as BetterTouchTool can pick up on.
Please see the original answer on the duplicate question for full details, including a Karabiner configuration file for the M560.
| Q: Logitech Mouse: how can I use additional buttons? I recently bought a Logitech M560 mouse.
It works fine on my Mac, but I wonder if there's a software/prefpane (free or paid) I can use to map the additional buttons I have on my mouse (i.e. to open dashboard, select line, etc...)
Logitech at the moment offers no support for Mac for this model (I was aware of this when I bought the mouse)
Without any configuration the bottom side button works as "Add bookmark" in Chrome, so I think I can do something for this...
A: According to an answer on a similar question, it's possible to use a program called Karabiner to detect the Logitec Windows-specific keyboard events sent by the M560, and translate them to regular keyboard or mouse button events that tools such as BetterTouchTool can pick up on.
Please see the original answer on the duplicate question for full details, including a Karabiner configuration file for the M560.
A: Thanks to the previous answers, I have successfully used BetterTouchTool to map three different buttons:
*
*Usign "Normal Mice" tab:
*
*Button 3 (Wheel Left)
*Button 4 (Wheel right)
*Usign "Keyboard" tab:
*
*cmd + D (Back), which I assigned to "Middle click".
Two buttons remain unmappable (Forward and Middle click), but it is better than nothing. Hope that it will fit to your needs.
A: If you're interested in using the side buttons for navigation, I made an open-source menu bar utility called SensibleSideButtons that solves this problem. Instead of binding the side buttons to keyboard shortcuts like most of the other programs mentioned here, mine instead binds them to virtual left and right swipe gestures. This approach offers several benefits: almost universal adoption across the OS (including Xcode), avoidance of destructive behavior, no menu bar blink or annoying noises, commands only sent to the specific window under your cursor.
(This assumes that your side buttons emit standard M4 and M5 events.)
A: I've used Steermouse in the past with excellent results.
A: I made Mac Mouse Fix.
It lets you remap your Side Buttons to Windows-style Back and Forward (just like Sensible Side Buttons - in fact, I copied their code) or to Switching Spaces. It also features a refined Smooth-Scrolling algorithm, which I think strikes a great balance between fluidity and control, and more.
Mac Mouse Fix is very light on system resources and it's a System Preferences Plugin so there's no status bar item. I tried to make it as clutter-free as possible.
On top of that, it's 100% free, it doesn't sell your data or anything, it's lightweight, easy-to-use, and fully open source.
I really hope that you'll find Mac Mouse Fix useful!
Download | Github
A: I have used USB Overdrive
The USB Overdrive is a device driver for Mac OS X that handles any USB
mouse / trackball / joystick / gamepad / media keyboard and any
Bluetooth mouse from any manufacturer and lets you configure them
either globally or on a per-application, per-device basis. Note that
the Apple Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad are not handled by the USB
Overdrive to let Mac OS X implement its full multitouch support.
Worked really well .
A: BetterTouchTool
BetterTouchTool will allow you to map mouse buttons to keyboard shortcuts or predefined actions. Simply click in the area with the button that you want to map, select a modifier key if you wish, then choose a keyboard shortcut or predefined action to map.
A: Hammerspoon is another free open source versatile tool that may be used to map the keys on the mouse to different functions - with many other options/plugins (known as 'Spoons') available. You'll need to install the tool and supply it with some appropriate config - see examples here for mouse remapping. Here is an example config that remaps the Logitech Marble mouse right mini-button(4) to as a Middle click(2):
hs.eventtap.new({4,25,26},
function(e)
local pressedMouseButton = e:getProperty(hs.eventtap.event.properties['mouseEventButtonNumber'])
if pressedMouseButton == 4 then
mousepos = hs.mouse.getAbsolutePosition()
hs.eventtap.event.newMouseEvent(e:getType(),mousepos):setProperty(hs.eventtap.event.properties.mouseEventButtonNumber, 2):post()
end
end
):start()
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88875be9f7566bc732262c6d9f38e80dfd3874e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Removing the builtin command-line utilities from PATH, zsh Okay, so I'm a Linux power user, that is I feel most at home when I have access to the command-line, and I'm very much used to using GNU coreutils, so now that I've installed GNU coreutils on Mac OS X using Homebrew, how would I go about removing the builtin coreutils that vanilla Mac OS X comes with?
Please keep in mind that I'm using zsh, so when I set the path to something I do it like this:
path=(/usr/local/bin ~/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin ~/.nvm/bin ~/bin /bin $path)
I want to be able to say,
Include everything present in the current path in the new path, excluding these files: /usr/bin/ls, /usr/bin/grep...
A: Add the following to your path to replace the OS X tools with Homebrew Coreutils:
$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin
Per zsh syntax…
path=($(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin $path)
| Q: Removing the builtin command-line utilities from PATH, zsh Okay, so I'm a Linux power user, that is I feel most at home when I have access to the command-line, and I'm very much used to using GNU coreutils, so now that I've installed GNU coreutils on Mac OS X using Homebrew, how would I go about removing the builtin coreutils that vanilla Mac OS X comes with?
Please keep in mind that I'm using zsh, so when I set the path to something I do it like this:
path=(/usr/local/bin ~/.gem/ruby/2.0.0/bin ~/.nvm/bin ~/bin /bin $path)
I want to be able to say,
Include everything present in the current path in the new path, excluding these files: /usr/bin/ls, /usr/bin/grep...
A: Add the following to your path to replace the OS X tools with Homebrew Coreutils:
$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin
Per zsh syntax…
path=($(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin $path)
A: First, you don't want to remove the any of the command line tools that apple provides unless you want an unstable / unusable system. However in traditional Unix/Linux fashion you can set up your path statement to check /usr/local/bin first, thus utilities installed there (default for homebrew) will be used before /usr/bin (or /bin). The remaining issue is in shell scripts - you must be explicit since they may ignore your $PATH.
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e745b4294a0bffa47f53ba886177cfda786d36b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to enable Three Finger Drag from command line I'm trying to write a shell script that will automatically set the trackpad to use the three-finger-drag option that you can find in the system preferences. I've tried a number of different things, but none of them seem to work. Here's what I've got right now:
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad TrackpadThreeFingerDrag -bool true
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadThreeFingerDrag -bool true
I've scoured all the settings I could find from the output of defaults read, but I've found nothing else useful. These are the settings that system-prefs changes when I manually change the settings. Is this a bug?
I'm running Mavericks on a 13-inch mid 2012 MacBook Air. The three-finger-drag works fine when I enable it manually.
EDIT: I restart my machine each time I run this.
A: It took a lot of trial and error, but I figured it out:
defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.trackpad.threeFingerSwipeGesture -int 1
You don't need to restart your machine after you enter this command for the setting to apply. Logging out of your account and logging back in again is sufficient.
| Q: How to enable Three Finger Drag from command line I'm trying to write a shell script that will automatically set the trackpad to use the three-finger-drag option that you can find in the system preferences. I've tried a number of different things, but none of them seem to work. Here's what I've got right now:
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad TrackpadThreeFingerDrag -bool true
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadThreeFingerDrag -bool true
I've scoured all the settings I could find from the output of defaults read, but I've found nothing else useful. These are the settings that system-prefs changes when I manually change the settings. Is this a bug?
I'm running Mavericks on a 13-inch mid 2012 MacBook Air. The three-finger-drag works fine when I enable it manually.
EDIT: I restart my machine each time I run this.
A: It took a lot of trial and error, but I figured it out:
defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.trackpad.threeFingerSwipeGesture -int 1
You don't need to restart your machine after you enter this command for the setting to apply. Logging out of your account and logging back in again is sufficient.
A: This worked on macOS Monterey along with a logout/login cycle:
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad DragLock -bool false
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad Dragging -bool false
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad TrackpadThreeFingerDrag -bool true
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9f59e43205cb2013b1197964adfb31d495638e97 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you control brightness on two monitors simultaneously via the brightness key? I have two Thunderbolt monitors daisy chained together and when I press down on the brightness key (F1/F2) it only dims the brightness / ups it only on one monitor. Is there a way so that when the brightness hotkey is pressed it can control both the monitors without having to open settings to control the other monitor?
Thanks.
A: This will not allow you to change them simultaneously but you can use
*
*F1 or F2 for the main display and
*control+F1 or control+F2 for the secondary display
As an addition you can also modify the brightness in smaller steps (1/4) by pressing option+shift with both combinations.
| Q: Can you control brightness on two monitors simultaneously via the brightness key? I have two Thunderbolt monitors daisy chained together and when I press down on the brightness key (F1/F2) it only dims the brightness / ups it only on one monitor. Is there a way so that when the brightness hotkey is pressed it can control both the monitors without having to open settings to control the other monitor?
Thanks.
A: This will not allow you to change them simultaneously but you can use
*
*F1 or F2 for the main display and
*control+F1 or control+F2 for the secondary display
As an addition you can also modify the brightness in smaller steps (1/4) by pressing option+shift with both combinations.
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34977c4aa5c9dc8ffa7c986a61ca45b3dc24b625 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to switch between fullscreen applications in OSX (Mavericks) I use a lot of different spaces for my fullscreen applications to get me focus on the different tasks I have to do. For example, I have a space with my mail app, subversion app, safari and so on.
To switch between my active apps I use ⌘ + tab all the time. Even though the icon of my fullscreen apps appears when tabbing and the menubar getting active, I don't see the app. Only when I go to Mission Control and click the app it will switch to the fullscreen window.
Is there a setting or a shortcut to achieve this without using the mouse?
A: I suggest Apptivate app for this.
Easiest way for switching between apps. No need for complicated shortcuts, jus stroke sequence like: F1, than any key for yours app. No problem to use single key (F1 / F2 / F3 ...), or longer sequence (F1,F2,F1 / F2,F2,q).
| Q: How to switch between fullscreen applications in OSX (Mavericks) I use a lot of different spaces for my fullscreen applications to get me focus on the different tasks I have to do. For example, I have a space with my mail app, subversion app, safari and so on.
To switch between my active apps I use ⌘ + tab all the time. Even though the icon of my fullscreen apps appears when tabbing and the menubar getting active, I don't see the app. Only when I go to Mission Control and click the app it will switch to the fullscreen window.
Is there a setting or a shortcut to achieve this without using the mouse?
A: I suggest Apptivate app for this.
Easiest way for switching between apps. No need for complicated shortcuts, jus stroke sequence like: F1, than any key for yours app. No problem to use single key (F1 / F2 / F3 ...), or longer sequence (F1,F2,F1 / F2,F2,q).
A: This doesn't let you switch straight to a target app, but ctrl + cursor keys will let you move left and right through your spaces to reach the full screen app.
The shortcut can be changed in system preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Mission Control.
A: I spent a really long time looking at this and found that under keyboard > shortcuts there is a section under the name keyboard called mission control. It says that ctrl + arrow key, whether it be left or right, will switch "spaces". "Spaces" are your full-screen applications you have running. You can use cmd + tab to switch the focus window that will appear at the top, but it didn't seem to work for full-screen apps as quickly as the ctrl + arrow key. All of those keyboard shortcuts work, but if you wanted a quick way to switch between full-screen apps, just use ctrl + arrow key. I don't know what to tell you for minimized apps though because those don't work. You could just set focus to the app and use the "show available windows" option in mission control by using ctrl + arrow down.
A: It has been a while and it seems that the keyboard shortcut for switching spaces has changed. In Mac OS X High Sierra it was set to ctrl + option + arrow key for me.
A: If you're using new MacBook Pro models with the Touch Bar, you can change your Keyboard settings for Touch Bar to display Spaces (including full screen apps) on the Touch Bar, which allows you to directly switch to a specific fullscreen app without looping through all of them with Cmd+Tab or swipe gestures. It looks something like this.
Here's the relevant Settings page.
A: yes, there is. Activated System Preferences -> Mission Control -> When switch to an application, switch to space…
A: For those users that have Ventura,
System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Mission Control > When switching an app...
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e3854373b3358b1e9f095d76fb3a5dd183cf9ffc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to open files at last position in Textwrangler? I am using Textwrangler (Version 4.5.3) to edit a set of files and I switch between them very often.
Instead of opening all files separately I selected the whole folder containing them and opened this.
My problem now is:
Every time I switch from i.e. line 600 of file A in folder XY to file B in folder XY/Z, and then back to file A I have to scroll back to line 600, as Textwrangler opens this file again at the first line.
What I want now is an option that makes it possible to let Textwrangler "remember" where I left off last time I had it open.
I looked through all preferences in TextWrangler but couldn't find an option that does what I want.
A: Try a program called Brackets. It does exactly what you want. Its also a really cool looking editor, and only requires one window.
Link to Brackets by Adobe: Here
| Q: How to open files at last position in Textwrangler? I am using Textwrangler (Version 4.5.3) to edit a set of files and I switch between them very often.
Instead of opening all files separately I selected the whole folder containing them and opened this.
My problem now is:
Every time I switch from i.e. line 600 of file A in folder XY to file B in folder XY/Z, and then back to file A I have to scroll back to line 600, as Textwrangler opens this file again at the first line.
What I want now is an option that makes it possible to let Textwrangler "remember" where I left off last time I had it open.
I looked through all preferences in TextWrangler but couldn't find an option that does what I want.
A: Try a program called Brackets. It does exactly what you want. Its also a really cool looking editor, and only requires one window.
Link to Brackets by Adobe: Here
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a7d52016645b0558ddb18e3d16181f0baccac069 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Spotlight menu item on OS X 10.9 sometimes does not function (beeps instead) I'm running into a situation now and then when the Spotlight menu on OS X 10.9 can't be activated. When I click on its magnifying glass icon I receive only an error indication (beep tone) but get no chance to enter any search terms.
This can happen even if no programs have been launched and while the other menu items work as expected.
What causes this behavior and can it be overcome? (I have by now become reliant on Spotlight to open all kinds of documents, etc., so this seeming misbehavior is esp. unfortunate.)
A: Same thing was happening to me. Tried the keyboard shortcut (cmd+space, or option+cmd+space) and it worked and now seems to work fine even when I click.
| Q: Spotlight menu item on OS X 10.9 sometimes does not function (beeps instead) I'm running into a situation now and then when the Spotlight menu on OS X 10.9 can't be activated. When I click on its magnifying glass icon I receive only an error indication (beep tone) but get no chance to enter any search terms.
This can happen even if no programs have been launched and while the other menu items work as expected.
What causes this behavior and can it be overcome? (I have by now become reliant on Spotlight to open all kinds of documents, etc., so this seeming misbehavior is esp. unfortunate.)
A: Same thing was happening to me. Tried the keyboard shortcut (cmd+space, or option+cmd+space) and it worked and now seems to work fine even when I click.
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7483afd17f65151fb7f4ebd06cef3d9cae845097 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: CLI softwareupdate does not find updates I can see in the App Store that I have one application (Xcode 5.0.2) that needs to be updated. But if I run the sudo softwareupdate --list in terminal I get the message that there is "No new software available". Why don't the CLI tool and the App Store have the same information?
A: The CLI tool softwareupdate is only for OS X updates provided through Apple's software update catalog, or whichever .sucatalog is set in preferences for catalogs provided by OS X Server's Software Update service.
This update catalog does not contain details for Mac App Store apps, such as Xcode.
You can restrict the Mac App Store to only show softwareupdate updates by running the following Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.appstore restrict-store-softwareupdate-only -bool yes
You can read more about the softwareupdate CLI tool in the man page.
| Q: CLI softwareupdate does not find updates I can see in the App Store that I have one application (Xcode 5.0.2) that needs to be updated. But if I run the sudo softwareupdate --list in terminal I get the message that there is "No new software available". Why don't the CLI tool and the App Store have the same information?
A: The CLI tool softwareupdate is only for OS X updates provided through Apple's software update catalog, or whichever .sucatalog is set in preferences for catalogs provided by OS X Server's Software Update service.
This update catalog does not contain details for Mac App Store apps, such as Xcode.
You can restrict the Mac App Store to only show softwareupdate updates by running the following Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.appstore restrict-store-softwareupdate-only -bool yes
You can read more about the softwareupdate CLI tool in the man page.
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507abd495675da55c2f369cd2527ef8b32691849 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Double-clicking a window’s title bar to minimize it in Mavericks After upgrading to Mavericks I’m no longer able to minimize a window to the Dock by double-clicking on its title bar. How do I get this functionality back?
A: Go to the Dock section of System Preferences and check “Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize”.
| Q: Double-clicking a window’s title bar to minimize it in Mavericks After upgrading to Mavericks I’m no longer able to minimize a window to the Dock by double-clicking on its title bar. How do I get this functionality back?
A: Go to the Dock section of System Preferences and check “Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize”.
A: System Preferences
Appearance
Second section,select Double-click a window's....
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f2f576e53f8cce2289cbb3a5b1926c39930aff31 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Equivalent of iOS' 30/30 (task manager) app for OS X 30/30 is a slick task manager for iOS devices that's also free. I'm trying to find an equivalent app for OS X. Some of the features in 30/30 that I would like to see in a mac app are:
*
*Clean interface
*Cycle a set of tasks ad infinitum (good for those long code-coffee-code-reddit-read-coffee-... cycles)
*Start/stop/pause a task and adjust a task's time temporarily (e.g. +5/-5 mins)
*Free or less than $5
Does anyone know of such an app? Here's a screenshot of 30/30 on an iPhone.
A: There's the Reminders app in Mavericks, but you can also try Anxiety: http://www.anxietyapp.com
| Q: Equivalent of iOS' 30/30 (task manager) app for OS X 30/30 is a slick task manager for iOS devices that's also free. I'm trying to find an equivalent app for OS X. Some of the features in 30/30 that I would like to see in a mac app are:
*
*Clean interface
*Cycle a set of tasks ad infinitum (good for those long code-coffee-code-reddit-read-coffee-... cycles)
*Start/stop/pause a task and adjust a task's time temporarily (e.g. +5/-5 mins)
*Free or less than $5
Does anyone know of such an app? Here's a screenshot of 30/30 on an iPhone.
A: There's the Reminders app in Mavericks, but you can also try Anxiety: http://www.anxietyapp.com
A: I use pushbullet to get the iOS notification show up to Mac.
This way, you can still use 30/30 app on your iPhone, but get notification on your Mac.
A: I found an app called FocusList which I use to do a similar thing to 30/30, it lets you plan your day and tasks in order and go Pomodoro style through them one by one. It isn't quite as cute as 30/30, but gave me what I needed. It's under $5 so not free like 30/30, and it looks like you can only do things in 30m (25m + 5m break).
http://focuslist.co/
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4d57dc6384451346374f130c0d3872a2417b5018 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mavericks Mail will not save preferences I have the updated version of Mail, and still having Gmail problems, but one problem at a time here… Currently the headache is that it will not save any preferences: window layout, junk mail filtering off, etc. Every time I quit and re-launch it is back to default settings. Any suggestions?
A: Make sure that all the permissions are correct on your home folder.
You can use the ACL tool on the Recovery HD to do this:
*
*Boot into the Recovery HD using ⌘R.
*Run resetpassword in Terminal (available from Utilities → Terminal).
*Select your account from the drop-down list.
*Click the Reset button for Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs.
| Q: Mavericks Mail will not save preferences I have the updated version of Mail, and still having Gmail problems, but one problem at a time here… Currently the headache is that it will not save any preferences: window layout, junk mail filtering off, etc. Every time I quit and re-launch it is back to default settings. Any suggestions?
A: Make sure that all the permissions are correct on your home folder.
You can use the ACL tool on the Recovery HD to do this:
*
*Boot into the Recovery HD using ⌘R.
*Run resetpassword in Terminal (available from Utilities → Terminal).
*Select your account from the drop-down list.
*Click the Reset button for Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs.
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3d931620111505ec71e092171697ccf078f897af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I copy photos edited via the Camera app on my iPhone to my PC? So, I know that the photos edited via the Camera app can't be copied to a Windows PC along with the edits.
I realise that the alternative is to email 5 photos at a time.
This is obviously cumbersome. Can anyone suggest alternatives?
A: Okay. I've found it.
The easiest alternative to getting the edits onto your PC, instead of emailing them to yourselves is to upload it to Flickr.
Obviously, you'll need iOS7, as it has native Flickr integration.
You can upload 10 photos at once which is far better than emailing.
Moreover, if you're like me, who backups photos to a cloud, you can use IFTTT to create a trigger and upload it to your favorite service whenever a new photo is uploaded.
| Q: How do I copy photos edited via the Camera app on my iPhone to my PC? So, I know that the photos edited via the Camera app can't be copied to a Windows PC along with the edits.
I realise that the alternative is to email 5 photos at a time.
This is obviously cumbersome. Can anyone suggest alternatives?
A: Okay. I've found it.
The easiest alternative to getting the edits onto your PC, instead of emailing them to yourselves is to upload it to Flickr.
Obviously, you'll need iOS7, as it has native Flickr integration.
You can upload 10 photos at once which is far better than emailing.
Moreover, if you're like me, who backups photos to a cloud, you can use IFTTT to create a trigger and upload it to your favorite service whenever a new photo is uploaded.
A: Use iCloud. On your phone go to Settings > iCloud and enable Photos. It may take some time to sync, but they will.
Then go to iCloud.com and log into your account from your PC. Then you can browse your iCloud files including your photos that you've sync'd from your phone.
A: There are a couple of wireless syncing options.
If you want to upload a small number of photos I would suggest using Google Drive / Dropbox; both support multiupload, you only select the ones you want to upload and they will just appear in according folders on your PC.
If you want to upload your entire photo stream you can start using Google Photos. It can be configured to upload only when on wifi.
A: I had hundreds of photos edited on iOS that I needed to transfer (yes, I actually did edit that many photos in my case)
Here's a solution I recently used, https://send-anywhere.com/ (free at the time of this writing)
Both the sender and receiver can receive/send files via the website, Android App or iOS App.
So, it's not just for PCs, but any platform. And obviously, it's not just for photos, but for files in general.
Additional notes:
In my case, I was trying to transfer edited photos from my iPhone to my Mac, and I initially used Photos to import them, which transferred the original ones (i.e. not what I wanted).
Then I used AirDrop, which did transfer the edited ones, but are all named as FullSizeRender.jpg, FullSizeRender(1).jpg, FullSizeRender(2).jpg, etc, but not in the order I selected. It almost seemed like whichever file gets fully received first gets the available name first (again, not what I wanted)
So I ended up selecting my photos on iPhone, sharing to the Send Anywhere app, and downloaded the files from my Mac. I got the same file name patterns, but this time they were all in the sequence I expected and wanted, which I can live with.
Those were photos of dozens of pages of notes I had, so I specifically didn't want them to be transferred and named in random order.
Unconfirmed speculations:
From the AirDrop experience I mentioned, if you actually have two Apple devices, I'm speculating that the edited photos get transferred from one device to another.
If this is true, then you can first send the edited photos from one device to the second, then through USB/wire, transfer your edited photos from the second device to your PC.
I can't actually try this yet - if someone can confirm this, that would be great.
A: You can find the solution on this link:
How to import to Mac/Windows the iOS edited images without losing the changes
;-)
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c36e1a44a672349fa888975b97adf71f98e8516c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't email Numbers 3.0 or Pages 5.0 documents via Google Mail (Gmail) When I try to email a Numbers 3.0 or Pages 5.0 document via Google Mail, I receive the following error.
A: It appears that with the new version of Numbers, Apple changed from using files to using folders that appear as files. Gmail will not allow folders to be emailed.
Google Groups Forum: Can't send an email with Apple .PAGES attachment document.
| Q: Can't email Numbers 3.0 or Pages 5.0 documents via Google Mail (Gmail) When I try to email a Numbers 3.0 or Pages 5.0 document via Google Mail, I receive the following error.
A: It appears that with the new version of Numbers, Apple changed from using files to using folders that appear as files. Gmail will not allow folders to be emailed.
Google Groups Forum: Can't send an email with Apple .PAGES attachment document.
A: Zipping does not help. Gmail looks inside zip files to check for files to block.
This link explains this why putting a blocked file inside a zip file don't work, but it does not explain why a .pages document would be blocked to begin with.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590#
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7510a234c1bdbd8ea9a9aab98208f9b1ec1dd35e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable Escape key in Safari for getting out of full screen mode I use Safari in Full Screen mode on OS X Mavericks all the time. I also use the escape key in web pages fairly frequently for various things (depends on the webpage).
One unfortunate side effect of these two facts is that I will occasionally turn off Full Screen mode inadvertently by hitting the escape key on a page that doesn't intercept the escape key.
Is there a way to disable the "Escape turns off full screen mode" behavior in Safari?
A:
Now, you could go ahead and brute-force disable the Escape key in
Safari. But that'd defeat the purpose of still allowing Escape to work
as a shortcut in the aforementioned places, which I'd rather avoid.
See here for an example to remap Escape to ⌥Escape with a Keyboard Maestro macro:
| Q: Disable Escape key in Safari for getting out of full screen mode I use Safari in Full Screen mode on OS X Mavericks all the time. I also use the escape key in web pages fairly frequently for various things (depends on the webpage).
One unfortunate side effect of these two facts is that I will occasionally turn off Full Screen mode inadvertently by hitting the escape key on a page that doesn't intercept the escape key.
Is there a way to disable the "Escape turns off full screen mode" behavior in Safari?
A:
Now, you could go ahead and brute-force disable the Escape key in
Safari. But that'd defeat the purpose of still allowing Escape to work
as a shortcut in the aforementioned places, which I'd rather avoid.
See here for an example to remap Escape to ⌥Escape with a Keyboard Maestro macro:
A: For macOS 12.3, Safari 15.4 and Tampermonkey 4.17.6162 ($2 in App Store), this script (based on https://superuser.com/a/388993/620906) works for most websites (and you can usually still use Esc to close modals!):
// ==UserScript==
// @name Keep Full Screen
// @namespace http://superuser.com/q/315949
// @description Prevents Escape key from leaving full screen.
// @include https://*
// @include http://*
// ==/UserScript==
document.onkeydown = function (evt) {
if (evt.keyCode == 27) evt.preventDefault();
}
A: Simply use the alternative escape sequence: CTRL-[. It works like a charm and does not exit the full screen.
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69ee3679c18b4e12858884360d8355b6ff783bb5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable App Update Notifications on OSX? When I have apps that need updating in OSX I get a notification on the top-right corner of my screen that does not go away until I click it (which opens the app-store). Is there a way to turn these notifications off?
A: In OSX Mavericks:
You can temporarily disable the notifications by scrolling down in your notifications panel and switching the "Do Not Disturb" to On. My understanding is that the duration of time that this is in effect is determined by your settings in System Preferences > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > From XXX to XXX.
This is explained in more detail here and here.
The permanent solution has already been answered in this question.
| Q: Disable App Update Notifications on OSX? When I have apps that need updating in OSX I get a notification on the top-right corner of my screen that does not go away until I click it (which opens the app-store). Is there a way to turn these notifications off?
A: In OSX Mavericks:
You can temporarily disable the notifications by scrolling down in your notifications panel and switching the "Do Not Disturb" to On. My understanding is that the duration of time that this is in effect is determined by your settings in System Preferences > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > From XXX to XXX.
This is explained in more detail here and here.
The permanent solution has already been answered in this question.
A: If the App store doesn't know about updates it should not be able to notify you - so within System Preferences go into the "App Store" preference pane and deactivate the option to search for updates automatically.
A: OSX Monterey allows creating custom "Focus" settings in Notifications & Focus.
By creating a custom Focus using a Time Schedule, and specifying specifically which apps are allowed to send you notifications you can effectively turn off all notifications.
In my experience so far this includes OS & App Store related notifications.
This is particularly useful given that the new OSX includes random add like Notifications for Safari.
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eaef0ce5bbbac87afb585b507b8305a79429ea68 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Multiple IP addresses in Safari Is it possible to choose which IP address will be used to browse the web? I am connected to a VPN which created tun interface with different IP addres so now I have two of them.
I would also like to browse the web through the second one, the tun interface.
A: Yeah, I found the answer.. If you're using VPN via OSX Network settings, there is a setting under Advanced button to "Send all traffic over VPN connection". If you're using OpenVPN with Tunnelblick, the same "Route all traffic hrough the VPN" is under Settings->Advanced->While connected.
| Q: Multiple IP addresses in Safari Is it possible to choose which IP address will be used to browse the web? I am connected to a VPN which created tun interface with different IP addres so now I have two of them.
I would also like to browse the web through the second one, the tun interface.
A: Yeah, I found the answer.. If you're using VPN via OSX Network settings, there is a setting under Advanced button to "Send all traffic over VPN connection". If you're using OpenVPN with Tunnelblick, the same "Route all traffic hrough the VPN" is under Settings->Advanced->While connected.
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5231baa795b9992728561947eec49f0a44e43c9d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Spanish to English dictionary on Mac's dictionary app? Is there a way to add Spanish to English dictionary in mac's dictionary app so I can see the definition of word by tapping on a word?
A: Apple has introduced Spanish to English dictionary in Yosemite.
You can enable the dictionary named "Gran Diccionario Oxford - Español-Inglés • Inglés-Español" by going to Preferences of Dictionary app.
| Q: Spanish to English dictionary on Mac's dictionary app? Is there a way to add Spanish to English dictionary in mac's dictionary app so I can see the definition of word by tapping on a word?
A: Apple has introduced Spanish to English dictionary in Yosemite.
You can enable the dictionary named "Gran Diccionario Oxford - Español-Inglés • Inglés-Español" by going to Preferences of Dictionary app.
A: You will have to search the internet for one that someone has made. Some others can be found at
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2013/01/adding-dictionaries-to-dictionaryapp.html
Let me know if you find Spanish-English so I can add it to the list.
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1a7b7fba3f94596d24a5ef3a208d1836f1562da8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: xcode-select --install not available on update server I'm trying to install the new command line tools in OS X 10.9, and I get this weird error from Apple.
Can't install the software because it is currently available from the Software Update server.
xcode-select --install
A workaround is to download the tools from here https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action – nnyby
But that also returns an error.
Can anyone offer an alternative way to download this?
A: Xcode Command Line Tools can be downloaded directly from the Apple Developer site here as pointed out by this stackoverflow answer.
You could also just run my Xcode CLT install / bootstrap script if you're looking for a quick automated solution.
| Q: xcode-select --install not available on update server I'm trying to install the new command line tools in OS X 10.9, and I get this weird error from Apple.
Can't install the software because it is currently available from the Software Update server.
xcode-select --install
A workaround is to download the tools from here https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action – nnyby
But that also returns an error.
Can anyone offer an alternative way to download this?
A: Xcode Command Line Tools can be downloaded directly from the Apple Developer site here as pointed out by this stackoverflow answer.
You could also just run my Xcode CLT install / bootstrap script if you're looking for a quick automated solution.
A: The site seems to be online again now. \o/
Here's a direct link to the download if the site goes offline again:
http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/command_line_tools_os_x_mavericks_for_xcode__late_october_2013/command_line_tools_os_x_mavericks_for_xcode__late_october_2013.dmg
A: This error could also mean that you already have the command tools installed. The error message should have been more on to the point.
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5a2900678a0b12d291120c6122aad0a84347049e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable Security Warning Excel 2011 How can I disable the security warnings in Excel 2011 for Mac?
| Q: Disable Security Warning Excel 2011 How can I disable the security warnings in Excel 2011 for Mac?
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0e004c3379b1508a6a63b4c89fb737afa7540b8f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to search by coordinates in Apple Maps? Using google maps, looking for N45°11.760 E5°45.936 works to show the geolocation on a map.
Unfortunately this does not work on Maps.
Any idea how to do it ?
A: Well it seems that Maps only want decimals : 45.196000, 5.765600
Too bad it isn't as flexible as GMaps.
| Q: How to search by coordinates in Apple Maps? Using google maps, looking for N45°11.760 E5°45.936 works to show the geolocation on a map.
Unfortunately this does not work on Maps.
Any idea how to do it ?
A: Well it seems that Maps only want decimals : 45.196000, 5.765600
Too bad it isn't as flexible as GMaps.
A: It's not the most elegant solution, but it does work!
*
*Drop a pin where you want the coordinates
*Hit the info and then share button
*Pick something likes messages, etc. Right click on the link that gets created and hit 'edit link'. You'll see the latitude and longitude as parameters in the URL. For example: http://maps.apple.com/?lsp=9902&auid=4158007438164491913&sll=38.897517,-77.036542&q=The%20White%20House&hnear=38.897517,-77.036542
Latitude and Longitude are right there in the URL params.
A: To get the co ordinates without the clutter...
Drop Pin
Share to Messages,
Right click on the word 'map' and select 'open link'
The coordinates will now appear in the search field of Maps.app
A: Easy Method works in Maps and Mavericks.
1 Drop Pin
2 Share to Messages
3 Ctrl click on the word 'Map' in messages.app and then select 'Open'.
The co-ordinates will now appear in the search field of Apple Maps.
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116ffc48401306e0dff07b624273decf03f66633 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to cancel Mac store update? Is it possible to cancel a paused app update? There is no cancel option in the App Store; only resume is there.
A: The secret is OPTION key.
Press that and that resume button will turn in to cancel.
http://www.cultofmac.com/224342/cancel-instead-of-pausing-your-mac-app-store-updates-os-x-tips/
| Q: How to cancel Mac store update? Is it possible to cancel a paused app update? There is no cancel option in the App Store; only resume is there.
A: The secret is OPTION key.
Press that and that resume button will turn in to cancel.
http://www.cultofmac.com/224342/cancel-instead-of-pausing-your-mac-app-store-updates-os-x-tips/
A: I got the same problem, but I couldn't stop it using the option key. I just disconnected my Mac from the network and waited some seconds, and the download failed and it couldn't resume again. After that, I turned off automatic updates.
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9c77d6a0273df0ed35e8d886520672f7596207c4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What hardware does Xcode storyboard performance depend on the most? I'm considering upgrading my MacBook Air to a Pro in the interest of getting better performance out of Xcode development experience. Right now using Xcode 5 seems ok for writing code. However storyboards are becoming painful to work with.
What specs will influence the performance of storyboards the most?
A: I had the same issue. Whenever I opened the storyboard after the inconsistencies message was displayed, Xcode would consume 60%+ CPU and essentially make it unusable.
I (very slowly) found which images were being reported as problems, then deleted them through finder and restarted Xcode. You may also need to remove any references to these images in the storyboard.
Xcode now runs fine - hope it helps!
| Q: What hardware does Xcode storyboard performance depend on the most? I'm considering upgrading my MacBook Air to a Pro in the interest of getting better performance out of Xcode development experience. Right now using Xcode 5 seems ok for writing code. However storyboards are becoming painful to work with.
What specs will influence the performance of storyboards the most?
A: I had the same issue. Whenever I opened the storyboard after the inconsistencies message was displayed, Xcode would consume 60%+ CPU and essentially make it unusable.
I (very slowly) found which images were being reported as problems, then deleted them through finder and restarted Xcode. You may also need to remove any references to these images in the storyboard.
Xcode now runs fine - hope it helps!
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b774886df4708849a431898c7c82d723f0223b1e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get F11 and F12 to behave like normal function keys? I have a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 15" and I'm trying to set the function keys to perform as normal function keys. So I want the behaviour to be inverted from the standard behaviour where I need to press Fn to get the keys to work normally. I've enabled the setting in Preferences as shown below.
This works fine for all function keys except F11 and F12.
Fn + F11 and Fn + F12 both have the expected behaviour of adjusting the volume now, but when I press F11 by itself it enters Expose and when I press F12 by itself it launches Dashboard.
How can I get my F11 and F12 keys to just behave like normal function keys?
A: Well I actually just figured this out. In Preferences under Mission Control there were two options set to use the F11 and F12 keys. I set these to '-' and that fixed the issue. The options that were set to use these function keys are highlighted in the screenshot below.
| Q: How do I get F11 and F12 to behave like normal function keys? I have a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 15" and I'm trying to set the function keys to perform as normal function keys. So I want the behaviour to be inverted from the standard behaviour where I need to press Fn to get the keys to work normally. I've enabled the setting in Preferences as shown below.
This works fine for all function keys except F11 and F12.
Fn + F11 and Fn + F12 both have the expected behaviour of adjusting the volume now, but when I press F11 by itself it enters Expose and when I press F12 by itself it launches Dashboard.
How can I get my F11 and F12 keys to just behave like normal function keys?
A: Well I actually just figured this out. In Preferences under Mission Control there were two options set to use the F11 and F12 keys. I set these to '-' and that fixed the issue. The options that were set to use these function keys are highlighted in the screenshot below.
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ddcc02ff30885dc8e8c2340fb872269f89d27f14 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS development: GameCenter and In-App activated default So I've created an application in XCode and I've tried to put it in the store.
However, the options In-App purchases and GameCenter are activated and I cannot uncheck them.
Why are these on? And why can't I turn them off? I don't see why they should be active as my application has neither one of these.
Thanks in advance
A: You cannot deselect them. As apple mentions here they are automatically added to explicit app ids. The only way to do not have them is to create a wildcard app id (which is not a solution in most cases as it has many drawbacks).
Think of them as libraries added to your app. You do not have to use them and they change nothing to your project or to the way your app appears in the app store (unless you use them of course).
| Q: iOS development: GameCenter and In-App activated default So I've created an application in XCode and I've tried to put it in the store.
However, the options In-App purchases and GameCenter are activated and I cannot uncheck them.
Why are these on? And why can't I turn them off? I don't see why they should be active as my application has neither one of these.
Thanks in advance
A: You cannot deselect them. As apple mentions here they are automatically added to explicit app ids. The only way to do not have them is to create a wildcard app id (which is not a solution in most cases as it has many drawbacks).
Think of them as libraries added to your app. You do not have to use them and they change nothing to your project or to the way your app appears in the app store (unless you use them of course).
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b09fa4827940b28a0a6ca6574d991ae1709870f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTunes 11 - Difference between "Play Next" and "Add to Up Next" buttons Is there a difference between iTunes' "Play Next" and "Add to Up Next" buttons? (See screenshot above). They appear if I right click an album and it seems to me that they do the same thing: Adding the songs of the album (or artist) to my "Up Next" line.
(source: m-i-u.de)
A: 'Play Next' adds the song/album to be played directly, 'Add to Up Next' adds the song/album at the end of the songs/albums that have already been added to Up Next. For the first song/album, this will make no difference, but try adding a couple more and you'll see the difference.
In other words, 'Play Next' works as a stack - Last In First Out, while 'Add to Up Next' works as a queue - First In First Out.
| Q: iTunes 11 - Difference between "Play Next" and "Add to Up Next" buttons Is there a difference between iTunes' "Play Next" and "Add to Up Next" buttons? (See screenshot above). They appear if I right click an album and it seems to me that they do the same thing: Adding the songs of the album (or artist) to my "Up Next" line.
(source: m-i-u.de)
A: 'Play Next' adds the song/album to be played directly, 'Add to Up Next' adds the song/album at the end of the songs/albums that have already been added to Up Next. For the first song/album, this will make no difference, but try adding a couple more and you'll see the difference.
In other words, 'Play Next' works as a stack - Last In First Out, while 'Add to Up Next' works as a queue - First In First Out.
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21b8f7664cea0f4580361bf5c32d3675a4c1fa8a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable Esc shortcut to quit Fullscreen Some apps (Safari, iTunes...) quits fullscreen mode on Esc keyboard shortcut. Is there a way to disable it? It interferes e. g. with web apps control resulting in unintentional quitting fullscreen when you just hit one more Escape than you should.
A: It is way easier - in Firefox:
*
*In the URL bar write "about:config"
*Agree with security risks
*Search for "escape", it should find the entry browser.fullscreen.exit_on_escape
*Double click on "true", it should go to "false"
| Q: Disable Esc shortcut to quit Fullscreen Some apps (Safari, iTunes...) quits fullscreen mode on Esc keyboard shortcut. Is there a way to disable it? It interferes e. g. with web apps control resulting in unintentional quitting fullscreen when you just hit one more Escape than you should.
A: It is way easier - in Firefox:
*
*In the URL bar write "about:config"
*Agree with security risks
*Search for "escape", it should find the entry browser.fullscreen.exit_on_escape
*Double click on "true", it should go to "false"
A: Good question. Before browser makers figured out cmd-q was awfully dangerous without at least a prompt that the user really wants to close 60 tabs, I always changed the keyboard shortcut for the Quit command on my main browser. You can disable shortcuts via Keyboard Shortcuts.
*
*Open System Preferences: Keyboard.
*Click Keyboard Shortcuts in the top pill shaped tab.
*Click the Applications Shortcuts icon in the left hand column.
*Choose Safari from the drop down menu of offered applications (looks like the default list is applications which have been opened in the last three months).
*Enter the exact name of the menu item you wish to disable. In this case "Exit Full Screen".
*Add an alternative keyboard shortcut (in this illustration, I added Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-c)
This is what the finished result looks like.
*Test (alternative Application Shortcuts do now always work exactly as planned).
You can do the same thing with Keyboard Maestro (and much much more). Apple's feature is probably taken/adopted from Peter N. Lewis's implementation (which existed for many years before Apple came up with the feature in Snow Leopard). In Keyboard Maestro, you can also assign the same shortcut to multiple applications. In Keyboard Maestro, you can also take over keyboard commands which do not have menu items (complex applications like Photoshop come to mind: there are so many commands that many of the commands have no menu equivalent). It's also easier to move these preferences around from computer to computer if you are using Keyboard Maestro.
On the other hand the Apple version exists on all Macs past 10.6.8, including your less technical girlfriend's MacBook Pro. I use both depending on whether I want a quick fix or if I'm building permanent tools/shortcuts for an application I use professionally on multiple computers. Keyboard Maestro does far more than just substitute keyboard shortcuts: you can write sequential macros with pauses to automate what would otherwise be five or ten keypress and click type actions, i.e. redirecting, address and send email to someone else in the company with a single keyboard command.
A: When it comes to Safari, then for macOS 12.3, Safari 15.4 and Tampermonkey 4.17.6162 ($2 in App Store), this script (based on https://superuser.com/a/388993/620906) works for most websites:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Keep Full Screen
// @namespace http://superuser.com/q/315949
// @description Prevents Escape key from leaving full screen.
// @include https://*
// @include http://*
// ==/UserScript==
document.onkeydown = function (evt) {
if (evt.keyCode == 27) evt.preventDefault();
}
And you can usually still use Esc to close modals!
A: Oh, finally I did it!
Using Better Touch Tool app (but I think other such apps might work as well).
Added a custom keyboard shortcut ⎋Escape for Final Cut Pro which does nothing.
As a drawback, you won't be able to do useful things with Escape key (i.e. closing Preferences window).
A: If you use BetterTouchTool (which is amazing, and everyone should use it), I found a really easy trick which works for Safari, and should work for any other browser too. Do the following:
*
*Create a new app-specific keyboard shortcut in BTT for your preferred web browser
*Set "ESC" as the trigger key, and set "Shift + ESC" as the assigned action.
Shift + ESC seems to cause exactly the same behavior as ESC for everything I use ESC for in the web browser (like removing focus from a text box, or exiting an in-page text search), but Shift + ESC does not trigger full-screen mode exit for the browser window, so the resulting behavior is exactly what I want!
Hope that helps!
A: To avoid the situation when the whole app quits fullscreen mode when you accidentally hit ESC twice you can learn to use a different key.
Cmd-. will quit web apps that are in fullscreen (e.g. YouTube) but will not perform any undesirable actions when used twice.
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14b93bfed1b5685850a1d53730a99b72e88b8e27 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to upgrade iOS offline? I have an iPad 3 iOS5.1.1 jailbroken.
Now that iOS 7 (exactly 7.0.3) is on the Apple update servers, I want to know if I am able to update my iOS to 6.1.2 or not.
I downloaded the firmware of 6.1.2 and want to update to this except iOS 7.0.3.
Anytime I want to update it via iTunes, it wants to check it with Apple servers and obviously they say you should upgrade to 7.0.3.
Is there any way I can upgrade my iOS to 6.1.2?
A: This answer has been moved to a more generic question: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/114076/18387
| Q: Is it possible to upgrade iOS offline? I have an iPad 3 iOS5.1.1 jailbroken.
Now that iOS 7 (exactly 7.0.3) is on the Apple update servers, I want to know if I am able to update my iOS to 6.1.2 or not.
I downloaded the firmware of 6.1.2 and want to update to this except iOS 7.0.3.
Anytime I want to update it via iTunes, it wants to check it with Apple servers and obviously they say you should upgrade to 7.0.3.
Is there any way I can upgrade my iOS to 6.1.2?
A: This answer has been moved to a more generic question: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/114076/18387
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a578db6cad9190c3daa62cebb1e70f22acc6e7f1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminal app Tabs, how to position next to current tab instead of at the end I use Cmd-T all the time to open new tabs, and it's set to use the same directory.
However, it positions the new tab as the last / far right tab in the window, instead of next to the current tab that I'm in. Since it's often related to what I'm working on, I'd like to appear right next to the current tab.
Is there a setting for this? (found lots of things about Terminal and Tabs, but not this specific question)
Thanks
A: It is possible in nightly release of the alternative terminal program iTerm2 via Preferences → Advanced → Tabs: New tabs are added at the end, not next to current tab set to No.
| Q: Terminal app Tabs, how to position next to current tab instead of at the end I use Cmd-T all the time to open new tabs, and it's set to use the same directory.
However, it positions the new tab as the last / far right tab in the window, instead of next to the current tab that I'm in. Since it's often related to what I'm working on, I'd like to appear right next to the current tab.
Is there a setting for this? (found lots of things about Terminal and Tabs, but not this specific question)
Thanks
A: It is possible in nightly release of the alternative terminal program iTerm2 via Preferences → Advanced → Tabs: New tabs are added at the end, not next to current tab set to No.
A: I think Apple has changed this behavior, somewhere in the High Sierra updates, so that now the new terminal comes up next to the one I'm in - cool!
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43aafeb5bccd152903e0692d989a30d0e46f5a4e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What app places a lower-case 'd' icon in the menu bar? Does anyone recognize this app which has an icon "d"?
A: It's gfxCardStatus in discrete graphics mode.
what the menu bar icons mean:
i — you're using the integrated GPU.
d — you're using the higher-powered discrete GPU.
| Q: What app places a lower-case 'd' icon in the menu bar? Does anyone recognize this app which has an icon "d"?
A: It's gfxCardStatus in discrete graphics mode.
what the menu bar icons mean:
i — you're using the integrated GPU.
d — you're using the higher-powered discrete GPU.
A: It is gfxCardStatus. You can use it to view and change the graphics mode on your machine.
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7464acdb40fa2437bf027df7cfddc3679967b39a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Mavericks Screen brightness auto adjusting even when option is disabled Now I know from trying to find an answer to this to go uncheck the auto adjust box, since apparently it got checked when I updated to Mavericks, but now it seems my MacBook Pro has a mind of its own and still feels the need to auto adjust when I'm not doing anything.
I made sure 10 times at least that the auto adjust box wasn't checked, and it's not. So why is my Mac randomly doing this? (and btw, this only started today, and I got the update on the first day it was available)
A: I was just struggling with the same issue—it really annoyed the hell out of me. What helped me was a good ol' SMC reset:
See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 on how to do it.
| Q: OS X Mavericks Screen brightness auto adjusting even when option is disabled Now I know from trying to find an answer to this to go uncheck the auto adjust box, since apparently it got checked when I updated to Mavericks, but now it seems my MacBook Pro has a mind of its own and still feels the need to auto adjust when I'm not doing anything.
I made sure 10 times at least that the auto adjust box wasn't checked, and it's not. So why is my Mac randomly doing this? (and btw, this only started today, and I got the update on the first day it was available)
A: I was just struggling with the same issue—it really annoyed the hell out of me. What helped me was a good ol' SMC reset:
See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 on how to do it.
A: It may have to do with your charger.
I had the same problem; look at your charger, the lights probably keep changing from green to orange to nothing. When you plug in your adapter it automatically adjusts your brightness, the bad contact makes it do this over and over again.
A: I found that disabling "Automatic graphics switching" in the "Energy Saver" system preferences dialog fixed the problem (at least temporarily).
EDIT: Later in the evening, when I wanted to keep my brightness low, the bug recurred, then spontaneously disappeared again.
A: I just had this issue when "upgrading" the OS. It stopped auto-adjusting after I unchecked the box "Slightly dim the display while on battery power." This is found in System Preferences / Energy Saver / Battery. I know that's a different function, but it would appear there's a bug where the auto-adjust is tied to that checkbox instead of the one it's supposed to be tied to.
A: Are you sure?
System Preferences -> Displays -> Display -> Automatically adjust brightness
A: I had the same problem - have just downloaded this ap and fingers crossed, it seems to be holding the brightness levels steady.
http://www.resexcellence.com/2013/01/29/control-mac-screen-brightness-with-shady/
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d576e8718ab8a09b7458a5b2b100903ba0611295 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Headphones not detected when connected to MBP When I plug headphones into output of MBP (15-inch Early 2008) with Mavericks - nothing changes, sound comes from internal speakers, nothing in System Preferences too. SMC reset, NVRAM cleared, sleep/wakeup - same situation:
UPDATE: Upgraded to 10.9.1 - no change
A: If you see red glowing light coming from it try the toothpick approach: take a toothpick and poke around in the jack until light turns off.
Source from: Apple inc
OS X Mavericks: Audio ports
| Q: Headphones not detected when connected to MBP When I plug headphones into output of MBP (15-inch Early 2008) with Mavericks - nothing changes, sound comes from internal speakers, nothing in System Preferences too. SMC reset, NVRAM cleared, sleep/wakeup - same situation:
UPDATE: Upgraded to 10.9.1 - no change
A: If you see red glowing light coming from it try the toothpick approach: take a toothpick and poke around in the jack until light turns off.
Source from: Apple inc
OS X Mavericks: Audio ports
A: From https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5500054.
This appears to have worked for me so far. I'll update if it stops working.
Close all windows and quit all applications.
Click "Go" menu in the Finder menubar.
Select Computer, then Macintosh HD / Library / Preferences
Open "Audio" folder.
Right click these two files and select "Move to Trash".
*
*com.apple.audio.DevicesSettings.plist
*com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist
Close the window.
Restart the computer.
A: Sounds like most of solutions people have put forward didn't work for OP. But for the sake of any one finding this question by google, and suffering from a similar problem that I just had here's how I fixed it.
The Cause
I had set up a few screen sharing programs which did some pretty annoying stuff to the audio drivers, which required me to specify whether I wanted audio to come out of the builtin speakers or headphone jack, even after uninstalling these programs the problem still persisted.
What Fixed this
I entered the following commands in my terminal, you'll be prompted for your password.
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/Audio/*.plist
sudo killall coreaudiod
*
*The first one just removes the audio configuration files
*The second command just reboots the audio drivers, the files are then replaced.
This is similar like @user63463 's solution but you don't have to restart your computer :)
done
now pull your audio jack in and out and watch the audio source switch between builtin speakers, headphones, and whatever else like they originally did.
A: looks like your headphones jack has problem. Since its a hardware issue, better take it to apple store and get the jack replaced.
A: Funny, but despite the fact that headphones are working in linux properly - after replacing the small board with audio and power components - everything works fine on mac os x now :D
A: I tried all of the above. What finally fixed the problem was resetting the PRAM. Reboot. After the screen goes black and before the apple logo appear, basically at the moment it starts coming back, hold down command-option-P-R. Continue holding through the boot sound until the screen blacks and the apple logo appears a second time.
That should do it.
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ca1dbb012f666db139e9f392a7292098c15f67df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I revoke an applications access to keychain passwords from the command-line? Applications can be granted permanent unprompted access to passwords. You can add and revoke these privileges using the Keychain Access utility. (See this answer)
I'd like to be able to revoke from the command-line. Is this possible?
Specifically, my problem is that I'm creating a password in a shell script and storing it in the keychain using the security add-generic-password ... command. This works fine, but because the security application created the password, it's automatically granted free reading privileges. I want it to prompt every time.
| Q: How can I revoke an applications access to keychain passwords from the command-line? Applications can be granted permanent unprompted access to passwords. You can add and revoke these privileges using the Keychain Access utility. (See this answer)
I'd like to be able to revoke from the command-line. Is this possible?
Specifically, my problem is that I'm creating a password in a shell script and storing it in the keychain using the security add-generic-password ... command. This works fine, but because the security application created the password, it's automatically granted free reading privileges. I want it to prompt every time.
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56d3ec9ce45102c7981767844a6c65236297f4f1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I change my shell language localization on the macOS command line? I have a Mountain Lion macbook and it's default locale is english, it's keyboard is english (US) as well. I need to change the language that the terminal replies to Swedish.
For example,
Instead of replying "Connection Refused" for a failed telnet, it should say "Forbindelse Vagras" (which is the Swedish translation)
EDIT:
I have tried setting LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 and same with LC_ALL, to no effect
Have also tried changing system-wide settings, which changes the language in the entire system but not the zsh shell.
Is this split localization possible on macOS?
A: In the terminal enter
export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
You can add that to ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc for zsh) in order to change the language for all terminal sessions.
All command line tools that are localized should now print the output in Swedish.
However, those command line tools that were built without localization but use hard-coded texts cannot be changed in any way (except on source code level, of course), your example telnet being one of them.
| Q: How can I change my shell language localization on the macOS command line? I have a Mountain Lion macbook and it's default locale is english, it's keyboard is english (US) as well. I need to change the language that the terminal replies to Swedish.
For example,
Instead of replying "Connection Refused" for a failed telnet, it should say "Forbindelse Vagras" (which is the Swedish translation)
EDIT:
I have tried setting LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 and same with LC_ALL, to no effect
Have also tried changing system-wide settings, which changes the language in the entire system but not the zsh shell.
Is this split localization possible on macOS?
A: In the terminal enter
export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
You can add that to ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc for zsh) in order to change the language for all terminal sessions.
All command line tools that are localized should now print the output in Swedish.
However, those command line tools that were built without localization but use hard-coded texts cannot be changed in any way (except on source code level, of course), your example telnet being one of them.
A: I imagine you'll want to set the LANG environment variable.
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438ccbe4142d921718369901e3759f0fcc356fc7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to have one menu bar while having displays as separate spaces in Mavericks? The Mavericks feature "Displays have separate spaces" is nice except for one thing: With vertically arranged displays, you need to aim for the menu bar in the lower display.
This breaks the primary advantage of having the menu bar on the top of the display, which is that one can just throw the pointer upwards, and it will hit the menu bar and stop. (Fitts' law.)
Is it possible to have the best of both worlds: Separate spaces for my displays, but only one menu bar, located in my main display?
A: There's no built in function afaik.
However - even if you manage to hide the menu bar via terminal magic (don't know if there is) you will still face the issue that windows can't lap over the monitor (since windows can't lap between spaces), you can only move the complete window to one space/monitor or the other
| Q: Is it possible to have one menu bar while having displays as separate spaces in Mavericks? The Mavericks feature "Displays have separate spaces" is nice except for one thing: With vertically arranged displays, you need to aim for the menu bar in the lower display.
This breaks the primary advantage of having the menu bar on the top of the display, which is that one can just throw the pointer upwards, and it will hit the menu bar and stop. (Fitts' law.)
Is it possible to have the best of both worlds: Separate spaces for my displays, but only one menu bar, located in my main display?
A: There's no built in function afaik.
However - even if you manage to hide the menu bar via terminal magic (don't know if there is) you will still face the issue that windows can't lap over the monitor (since windows can't lap between spaces), you can only move the complete window to one space/monitor or the other
A: The only thing that works, is to have at least one window in the current application displayed on the top screen.
Otherwise, you will just need to aim for the menu bar for apps displayed on the lower screen.
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10fc43cabf7ca2587f695b34f729600e1381b4b8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MAMP always grabbing focus when quitting an app in Mavericks Upgraded from Lion to Mavericks and now when quitting any app, MAMP is always grabbing the focus instead of the previously opened app e.g. open MAMP, open Safari, open TextWrangler, quit TextWrangler, MAMP has focus instead of Safari. This was working fine in Lion. Anyone seeing similar behaviour or know how to fix it?
A: I have this issue sometimes with several applications, all i do is to quit and reopen Google Chrome and everything get back to work as expected.
| Q: MAMP always grabbing focus when quitting an app in Mavericks Upgraded from Lion to Mavericks and now when quitting any app, MAMP is always grabbing the focus instead of the previously opened app e.g. open MAMP, open Safari, open TextWrangler, quit TextWrangler, MAMP has focus instead of Safari. This was working fine in Lion. Anyone seeing similar behaviour or know how to fix it?
A: I have this issue sometimes with several applications, all i do is to quit and reopen Google Chrome and everything get back to work as expected.
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2d21a7730a5b102fc842b343896021136b8c0be7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to remove color stripes in list view in Finder (Mountain Lion)? The title says it all.
I would like to have clean white background in finder (in list view).
I don't want these pale blue stipes (alternating background color).
I'm pretty sure this is possible, since it was possible before (I managed to remove them back then in Snow Leopard). However, when I narrow the Google search to one year, nothing comes up.
The only tweak I managed to find is this:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071101062430328
I tried it, but it didn't change anything. It's for 10.5.
EDIT: I added a screenshot. Above is a Finder windows with stripes, below is a Path Finder window without stripes. I'm looking for a way to have the Finder without stripes too, just a clean white background.
| Q: How to remove color stripes in list view in Finder (Mountain Lion)? The title says it all.
I would like to have clean white background in finder (in list view).
I don't want these pale blue stipes (alternating background color).
I'm pretty sure this is possible, since it was possible before (I managed to remove them back then in Snow Leopard). However, when I narrow the Google search to one year, nothing comes up.
The only tweak I managed to find is this:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071101062430328
I tried it, but it didn't change anything. It's for 10.5.
EDIT: I added a screenshot. Above is a Finder windows with stripes, below is a Path Finder window without stripes. I'm looking for a way to have the Finder without stripes too, just a clean white background.
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4ff2fefb473ac1af54b5e381d97f354bc2c8ad4d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Website block on a time schedule I would like to find a way to block the access to some websites from all the browsers of my Macbook, but not just as Self-Control does. I want to make kind of a time schedule, for example blocking Facebook between 8am and 8pm, and let it free outside this "window", and do the same with different "time-windows" for other websites... Is there a way to do this?
A: My preferred method of doing this is to use a DD-WRT router and block specific sites on a time basis. (See here.)
Also, Netgear offers similar functionality in conjunction with OpenDNS. (See here.)
| Q: Website block on a time schedule I would like to find a way to block the access to some websites from all the browsers of my Macbook, but not just as Self-Control does. I want to make kind of a time schedule, for example blocking Facebook between 8am and 8pm, and let it free outside this "window", and do the same with different "time-windows" for other websites... Is there a way to do this?
A: My preferred method of doing this is to use a DD-WRT router and block specific sites on a time basis. (See here.)
Also, Netgear offers similar functionality in conjunction with OpenDNS. (See here.)
A: you can use Self-Control to create a time-schedule. Check here and here.
You could also use a browser extension, like WasteNoTime. Goto Settings->Time Allowed->Edit Settings. Here you are able to create a time-schedule. It appears that you use several browsers. I know WasteNoTime is available for Chrome and Safari. Probably also for Firefox but I haven't checked.
I have not tried using different time-windows for different websites. Normally you want to block all disturbing websites at once. There are more browser extension which block websites, you would probably have to check them. Or you could install several such browser extensions and set them to different websites and time-frames.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/110708"
} |
fb6fdf0d5bba38ed207e43c78d8a409e9c05a892 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Safari - is there a way to set a preferred screen size? As the title says, I would like new windows to open in a set screen size. I believe that the default is that they open in the size of the last window. Sometimes, I want to make a window smaller for some reason, but I want new windows to open as usual. Is there a shell script/command to accomplish this? Thanks
A: I use the following bookmark, which you can create as many as needed, to resize my safari window to a specific size:
javascript:self.moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(1250,screen.availHeight);
This moves the window to the far left, top and then makes the width 1250 pixels and makes the hight fill to the available (limited by the dock hight, if not hidden).
To use, bookmark any page and then edit the address with the code above.
Every now and again, an update to safari will break this, and then it'll work again after a subsequent update.
| Q: Safari - is there a way to set a preferred screen size? As the title says, I would like new windows to open in a set screen size. I believe that the default is that they open in the size of the last window. Sometimes, I want to make a window smaller for some reason, but I want new windows to open as usual. Is there a shell script/command to accomplish this? Thanks
A: I use the following bookmark, which you can create as many as needed, to resize my safari window to a specific size:
javascript:self.moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(1250,screen.availHeight);
This moves the window to the far left, top and then makes the width 1250 pixels and makes the hight fill to the available (limited by the dock hight, if not hidden).
To use, bookmark any page and then edit the address with the code above.
Every now and again, an update to safari will break this, and then it'll work again after a subsequent update.
A: There is a great extension available for Safari called ResponsiveResize which works great for me: http://www.midwinter-dg.com/downloads_safari-extension_responsive-resize.html
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"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/110737"
} |
0c9bdf25b55d3e89eb8f575be74ec9eeeb8a3ab8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do shared network drives, mounted on my mac, have icons vary depending on how I mount them? I have a single drive that is shared via the usb on my airport extreme. Works great.
That single drive actually has two partitions. I use them for different reasons. (movies and stuff on one, backup on another.)
That's just background. My question is, when I mount these drives, the WAY that I mount them makes them have different icons!
-- If I have them automatically get mounted by means of having the volume be one of the startup items (in control panel->users) then it looks like a greyish blue drive with little people holding hands. BUTTT if I mount one manually, myself, by going to Go -> Network ... the icon looks brighter blue and has the wifi symbol on it.
See this picture! Both are from the same drive, but simply loaded via a different command! What is the significance ... or the "why" ... of those two different icons?
| Q: Why do shared network drives, mounted on my mac, have icons vary depending on how I mount them? I have a single drive that is shared via the usb on my airport extreme. Works great.
That single drive actually has two partitions. I use them for different reasons. (movies and stuff on one, backup on another.)
That's just background. My question is, when I mount these drives, the WAY that I mount them makes them have different icons!
-- If I have them automatically get mounted by means of having the volume be one of the startup items (in control panel->users) then it looks like a greyish blue drive with little people holding hands. BUTTT if I mount one manually, myself, by going to Go -> Network ... the icon looks brighter blue and has the wifi symbol on it.
See this picture! Both are from the same drive, but simply loaded via a different command! What is the significance ... or the "why" ... of those two different icons?
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 171,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:30616",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/110771"
} |
df8435e91187c7cfb6ffa8b9ce5da2104e776bea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: open new tab in iTerm and execute command there I have found way to open new tab in iTerm:
newtabi()
{
osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to keystroke "t" using command down'
}
And I want to execute some commands in new tab. Let it be simple command pwd. How to do it?
If I run ...
newtabi && pwd
The new tab is opened as expected, but pwd command is executed not in new tab but in old one, where I typed newtabi && pwd
I use zsh. My os is OS X 10.8.5
A: Use tell session -1 of current terminal to write text "pwd":
activate application "iTerm"
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "t" using command down
tell application "iTerm" to tell session -1 of current terminal to write text "pwd"
| Q: open new tab in iTerm and execute command there I have found way to open new tab in iTerm:
newtabi()
{
osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to keystroke "t" using command down'
}
And I want to execute some commands in new tab. Let it be simple command pwd. How to do it?
If I run ...
newtabi && pwd
The new tab is opened as expected, but pwd command is executed not in new tab but in old one, where I typed newtabi && pwd
I use zsh. My os is OS X 10.8.5
A: Use tell session -1 of current terminal to write text "pwd":
activate application "iTerm"
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "t" using command down
tell application "iTerm" to tell session -1 of current terminal to write text "pwd"
A: osascript \
-e 'tell application "iTerm" to activate' \
-e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to keystroke "t" using command down' \
-e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to keystroke "ls"' \
-e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to key code 52'
A: ttab is a macOS and Linux CLI for opening a new terminal tab/window, optionally with a command to execute and/or display settings
From its samples:
# Open a new tab, execute a command, wait for a keypress, and exit.
ttab 'ls "$HOME/Library/Application Support"; echo Press a key to exit.; read -rsn 1; exit'
A: As of at least macos Mojave, iTerm 3.2.8, if you run:
$ open -a iTerm .
It will add it as a tab to the current window.
A: I couldn't get the accepted answer to work. I also wanted to pass multiple commands. This is what I came up with.
newtabi(){
osascript \
-e 'tell application "iTerm2" to tell current window to set newWindow to (create tab with default profile)'\
-e "tell application \"iTerm2\" to tell current session of newWindow to write text \"${@}\""
}
Example usage
newtabi pwd
newtabi 'cd ~/ && pwd'
newtabi 'echo \"Hello New Tab\"'
For more complex actions, I would recommend breaking up the commands.
code_folder="/path/to/code"
alias project="cd ${code_folder}/my-project/foo && yarn run start"
Then, newtabi project
A: In case you are searching for JXA version:
Reusable class
class iTerm {
constructor() {
this.app = Application("iTerm");
this.window = this.app.currentWindow();
}
findOrCreateTab(tabName, command) {
this.app.activate();
let existingTab = this.findTab(tabName);
if (existingTab == undefined) {
existingTab = this.createTab(tabName);
console.log(`Created new tab: ${tabName}`);
existingTab.currentSession().write({ text: command });
} else {
existingTab.select();
console.log(`Found existing tab: ${tabName}`);
}
return existingTab;
}
createTab(name) {
const newTab = this.window.createTabWithDefaultProfile();
const session = newTab.currentSession();
session.name = name;
// console.log(newTab.index());
// console.log(newSession.name());
// console.log(newSession.profileName());
return newTab;
}
findTab(name) {
const tabs = this.window.tabs();
for (const tab of tabs) {
let session = tab.currentSession();
// Strange, but iTerm uses `profileName` instead of `name` for keeping manually assigned session name.
const tabName = session.profileName();
if (tabName === name) {
return tab;
}
}
return undefined;
}
}
In case you are also interesting how to use ESM modules in JXA (via browserify), then here is a good example: https://github.com/johnelm/node-jxa. Plus https://www.npmjs.com/package/esmify.
After setting up you can import reusable class as show below:
import iTerm from "../lib/iTerm";
const app = new iTerm();
app.findOrCreateTab("MyTab", `cd "$HOME"`);
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 550,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:30619",
"question_score": "28",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/110778"
} |
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