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Posts by samcarter
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: Threshold, if the selection of th...
By default, the new tab page in Firefox has a lot of clutter in private mode. How to remove all this clutter?
I would like to get a list of all the files in a git repository which I modified. Take for example the repository https://github.com/josephwright/beamer . I tried the command git whatchanged --au...
One of the folders in my home folder, Music, appears to be hidden. In the finder it appears slightly greyed out and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidd...
This will depend on your bibliography style: for {InstructAny2Pix} can lead to incorrect results for styles with all caps titles {I}nstruct{A}ny2{P}ix can result in sub-optimal kerning, s...
Firefox allows to set the default zoom level in its preferences. Go to Preferences->General->Zoom->Default zoom to set it according to taste
Since the update to macOS 14.0 Sonoma, I every now and then get the following pop-up while typing. At first it is just the blue circle with "US": When I click on it, the white part with "DE" app...
I don't know if or if not this is possible from within grafx2, but your manual workflow can be simplified dramatically by using image magick. The following command will do all your steps at once an...
The setting can be changed on a per application basis with defaults write -app terminal AppleWindowTabbingMode -string always (replace terminal with the name of the app you want to change) Imp...
In macOS 11.6, I can go to System Preferences->General and activate the Prefer tabs when opening documents option so that new windows are opened as new tabs. This setting will influence many app...
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...
Are there any free (and preferably open source) methods to make the green window button maximise the window instead of going full screen? (I know BetterTouchTools can do that, but this is no lon...
I deleted the post because it was verbatim the same post as on several other sites, in particular it has been cross posted on https://www.reddit.com/r/teamviewer/comments/xr2row/after_disabling_...
Good news! With Firefox Nightly 102.0a1 there is now an option in about:config called print.prefer_system_dialog If this is set to true, the system print dialogue will be used automatically.
You can drag & drop the folder into the parent folder:
At the moment it is not yet possible to gain the "Edits Tags Ability" naturally (making suggested edits, which is a requirement to gain this ability, has not yet been implemented, see https://meta....
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 xa...
You can use the command line tool albatross (https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/albatross/) to find out which of the fonts you already have on your system, contain a given symbol. For example, on my s...
You could use the site https://www.fileformat.info to find fonts which contain a specific character. For example for the creative commons logo: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F16D/...
I would like to change the vertical position of subtitles in videos downloaded with yt-dlp. If I use yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube....
Since macOS 15, the right-click context menu for removable volumes has an entry "Erase Disk..." right next to the "Eject" entry: Is there any way to remove the erase option from the context menu...
(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->Accessibil...
Not really an accessibility issue, but this mouse pointer confused me to no end. I'm using macOS and this pointer looks exactly like my actual mouse pointer. I can't count how often I was looking f...
I updated the tag hierarchy (also for the macOS* tags) and added the proposed usage guidance to the windows tag.
If one uses the --exec argument, one can access the name of the .mp4 file via %(filepath)s and %(requested_subtitles.en.filepath)s will give the filename of the subtitles: yt-dlp -f 160 --write-su...
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