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Posts by samcarter
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+shif...
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 ...
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...
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...
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: IF they fulfil the original site's license re...
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 ...
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/28512...
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: base...
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'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 ...
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) ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
(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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 pla...
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 th...
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