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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Posts by samcarter‭

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Q&A Circulate through spaces on macOS 11

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...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Circulate through spaces on macOS 11

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: #!/...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Disable automatic tlmgr updates in Quarto

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...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Install Quarto extensions globally

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...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Converting pdf to png with sips on macOS 13.3.1 Ventura

The problem has been fixed in macOS 14.0. After upgrading to macOS Sonoma, one can again use sips to convert pdfs to pngs

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Disable input sources pop-up in macOS 14

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...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Centre tick labels in mermaid/gantt diagram

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                        ...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Setting zoom level in Safari web apps

This problem seems to have been solved in Safari 18.0 (19619.1.26.111.10)

posted 9mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&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. This won't be visible behind the menu bar and you don't need to be very accurate ...

posted 4y ago by samcarter‭

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