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Instead of trying to build my own touch bar, I'm now using Karabiner Elements to remap the existing keys on the touchbar to the desired behaviour. The following configuration will remap the screen...
Back in the days of OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, one could circulate from the last space to the first space, e.g. if one was on the last space and used the keyboard shortcut to go to the next space, it w...
Let's assume one has a Quarto document which does not compile because of an error in the latex code, e.g. here a simply typo in a macro name: --- format: pdf --- test\newlin test Quarto...
With pervious versions of macOS, I used sips to convert pdfs into pngs /usr/bin/sips -s format png document.pdf --out document.png In macOS 13.3.1 Ventura, this now gives an error: /Users/<...
Apple removed the hide option for login items in macOS 13 Ventura. Are there any alternative ways to launch an application at login without opening a window?
If one hovers over a server name in discord, a speech bubble with the server name pops up: Is there any way to avoid this tooltip? Maybe a userscript or a user style? As this element is only vis...
You can't do that in Word. Word's Sort command operates on "fields" in separate rows. It is nominally for Tables, but if the selected data is not in an actual Table then it treats each row of text...
Previously, web applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail were popular examples, but they have undergone significant advancements. Even Google Docs has undergone significant evolution. Fir...
As of June 2023, Gmail still doesn't offer a built-in way to disable the conversation view for specific senders. Knowing about this limitation, you should carefully review your inbox. If you influ...
A term that describes frontend redirects has the following tags: web-browsers web-servers While both tags are related, they don't look appropriate as the question is not about a web browser ...
As an alternative to rebooting, you might try to use "Force Quit Applicaitons" (Command-Option-Escape), select one web browser then click Force Quit. If there was another web browser in the list, r...
I updated the tag hierarchy (also for the macOS* tags) and added the proposed usage guidance to the windows tag.
I'm interested in participating in tag curation. Below there are some notes network x 6 Should it be network or networking? battery x 2 It should not be the only tag, or it should ...
That looks like a font scaling or DPI issue – those ━ □ 🞩 buttons look far-enough apart that the OS might be deliberately scaling to make a touch screen easier to use, but apps that are not aware o...
In case of a classic magnetic disc drive starts to make new strange sounds and you can tell it isn't coming from one of the many fans in the computer, turn it off immediately and remove the power p...
One of the Wifi networks I connect to has a DNS server on it, which is better than public ones. This DNS server is not available when connected to other networks. When I'm on this network, I want ...
I found this, thanks to Zelphir Kaltstal, and it worked! gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout appmenu:minimize,maximize,close Found at Add minimize and maximize buttons ...
Does the Mac Mini have a GPU? This sounds like something that could happen due to a graphics driver issue. AFAIK Youtube relies on the HTML5 video element. If it freezes in all browsers, it's prob...
How to change user language for Microsoft 365/Sharepoint Online? I found this https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/office/change-sharepoint-online-language-settings-0f6a477a-dcab-4462-9d0c-e3b53d13...
The default icon of the Tunnelbear Firefox extension looks like this: I would like to hide the "Off" badge so that it looks like this: Following a similar process as in the answer https://pow...
Brave The Brave project was started by Brendan Eich, one of the key figures in original Firefox, after he left the Mozilla foundation due to political reasons. From this, one could presume that it...
M-x kill-local-variable RET c-basic-offset seems to work, but only temporarily. If I save, and close Emacs, and revisit the file, the changes do not persist. I that in an affected directory, each ...
It seems possible to do this with unlockPref. unlockPref("signon.rememberSignons"); This technically only "unlocks" the setting, but in my case when unlocked it changes to true on its own in ab...
In ranger, I am often copying a bunch of files from one folder to another. Currently I do it like this: Select files with Space Cut with F6 Navigate to the destination folder Paste with pp ...
Still don't know how to do this, but bookmarks kind of accomplish it. You can do m1 too bookmark a folder as "1". Then move to another folder and bookmark with m2. Now, to switch use: `1 `2 #...
