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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...
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 ...
There is actually a little app to change the behaviour of the green button called "Right Zoom": https://blazingtools.com/right_zoom_mac.html Caveat: The button will still go into full screen for ...
@Canina had the brilliant idea to make my userscript reload the page in case the cookie did not exist previously. Using this idea, my userscript now works like this: Greasemonkey version // ==Us...
If ones uses RStudio to convert a rmarkdown file to pdf, RStudio will call pandoc with arguments like this: /opt/homebrew/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS Untitled.knit.md --to beamer --from markdown+a...
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...
As a quick and very dirty hack, one could stick some invisible characters, like em-spaces (U+2003), in front of the date. ```mermaid gantt tickInterval 1day axisFormat ...
I finally found a solution thanks to @bogdanw at https://stackoverflow.com/a/77256214/2777074 The idea is to create a file called UIKit.plist with the content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UT...
One of the new features of macOS 14 Sonoma are Safari web apps which allow to treat webpages like an application. Is there a way to set the zoom level persistently in such apps? I can zoom in and ...
The problem has been fixed in macOS 14.0. After upgrading to macOS Sonoma, one can again use sips to convert pdfs to pngs
Another possible approach is to create a helper app which opens an app without opening a window. I used platypus to create a simple app which will execute a shell script. The settings used for th...
Based on the post https://droidwin.com/how-to-hide-an-app-at-launch-on-mac-ventura/ an alternative approach could be to use a launch agent. To do this, create a file vienna.LaunchAtLogin.plist (re...
This is probably not a lasting solution, but one can manually copy the individual folders of the extensions to <path to your quarto installation>/share/extensions/quarto/ Documents seem t...
I didn't yet find a clean solution, but as a dirty hack one can edit the quarto.js file and change the line [kLatexAutoInstall]: true, to [kLatexAutoInstall]: false, (this obviously won't s...
Another approach is to use Karabiner-Elements. As a first step, I created to executable shell scripts, which will switch to the previous/next space using the handy tool SpaceInfo Space_prev: #!/...
One possibility is to use Hammerspoon with the following configuration: hs.hotkey.bind({ "cmd" }, "Right", function() local NextSpace = 1 for k, v in pairs(hs.spaces.allSpaces()[hs.scree...
Is there a way to install Quarto extensions globally? If I follow the installation instruction from https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/managing.html and e.g. use quarto add quarto-ext/fontawesome...
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) ...
As a hack, you can open your background image e.g. in preview and add some lighter area at the top of the image. This won't be visible behind the menu bar and you don't need to be very accurate ...
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