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Activity for samcarter
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Programmatically changing the keyboard illumination in small steps Background story: I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing `Illumination(up/down)`+`option`+`shift`). To do this I'm currently trying to use MTMR (My touchbar. My rules.), which allows me to ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Maximise instead of full screen window There is actually a little app to change the behaviour of the green button called "Right Zoom": https://blazingtools.com/rightzoommac.html Caveat: The button will still go into full screen for most Adobe applications (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Increase contrast between current and other tabs in Firefox I also had the problem that I couldn't tell which tab was active -- in particular in dark mode they looked all the same. To fix this I'm using https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix This set of scripts offers the opportunity to get the old Photon-style tabs back and, as all the colours ar... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: What is the correct way to change the color of an element in GIMP? To make the selection you get with the magic wand to follow your object more accurately, you can adjust the tool settings. Two of them are particular useful: 1) `Threshold`, if the selection of the magic wand is too big or too small, tweaking this parameter is a good starting point. 2) If y... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How to handle crossposts How do we want to handle cross-posts, e.g. posts which are completely copied verbatim from other sites? A couple of approaches I could think of: 1. IF they fulfil the original site's license requirements they are fine. Otherwise they should be deleted. 1. IF they fulfil the original site's ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How would you feel about a merger with Linux Systems? Personally I think this would be an excellent idea and we would benefit in many ways. - as the post on main meta already mentions, both communities would benefit from more activity - looking through the posts on linux system, I think they would be a good addition to the posts we would bring in... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How would you feel about a merger with Linux Systems? On main meta, someone suggested to look into the possibility to merge our Power Users community with the community for Linux Systems to increase activity. (see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285122) Just to test the waters: How would you all feel about this? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Who should the temporary moderators be? I would like to suggest Canina. Although there aren't yet so many posts in which we could get to know how others handle things, I think they could be a good moderator for these reasons: - based on their activity they seem to have a wide area of interests, which should be helpful in a phase i... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Maximise instead of full screen window Are there any free (and preferably open source) methods to make the green window button maximise the window instead of going full screen? screenshot of macOS window control buttons (I know BetterTouchTools can do that, but this is no longer free. And I also know that there are other methods to... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Remapping backspace with Karabiner Elements I'm using Karabiner-Elements to remap some keys. I would like remap - `backspace` to forward delete - `option` + `backspace` to backward delete To do this I tried to write the following rule and place the `.json` file in `/Users//.config/karabiner/assets/complexmodifications`, but the r... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Audio book player for macOS 11.5 After a lot of trial and error, I finally found cog which wonderfully satisfies my wish list. There are two other players which came close: - https://iina.io/ (needs to keep a window open) - https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player/ (needs additional tool to be accessible via media buttons; of... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Audio book player for macOS 11.5 I'm looking for an application to play my mp3 audio books on macOS 11.5. On an older system, I was using `ecoute`, but this does not seem to work under macOS 11.5. Required features: - resume the current playlist/book from the timestamp when I last closed the application - can be controlled ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5 Thanks a lot at @Quasímodo for pushing me in the right direction. The problem turned out to be an extended attribute set for this folder. To see if there are extended attributes, one can use ``` xattr Music ``` In my case, this gave `com.apple.FinderInfo`, so I removed it with ``` ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5 One of the folders in my home folder, `Music`, appears to be hidden. In the finder it appears slightly greyed out greyed out folder in Finder and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidden files. I tried to unhide the folder using ``` chflags nohid... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How do I temporarily disconnect a Mac from the network without touching cables? If your goal is to only disconnect certain apps, you can use tools like - https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html (free and open source) - TCPBlock (free, for older MacOS) to block the network access of the particular app instead of disconnecting your whole computer. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar (Caution: This method will not only influence the menu bar, but also the appearance of the dock etc.) A bit more drastic way is to switch off the transparency via `System Preferences`->`Accessibility`->`Display`->`Reduce transparency` Screen shot of the system preference tab This will result... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar As a hack, you can open your background image e.g. in preview and add some lighter area at the top of the image. Sceenshot of mac preview app with added lighter rectnagle on top of the background image This won't be visible behind the menu bar and you don't need to be very accurate with the si... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar In macOS 11 the font colour of the menu bar automatically adapts to the darkness of the background image. On a light background it will show the text in black and on a dark background it will show white text. This is a bit annoying if you - have multiple displays with different background ima... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo After a bit of experimentation, I think the `\` in my search term is the problem. This acts as a shortcut for the "I'm feeling ducky" option. Workarounds: - remove `\` from the search term - place the search term in quotation marks, e.g. `"\namedef"` (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo I intermediately have a problem with DuckDuckGo. Instead of showing me the list of search results it sometimes directly jumps to one of the search results, without giving me a chance to check if the web address looks reasonable. One example of such an automatic redirect is if I search for `\namede... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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