User Interface (UI) or Graphical User Interface (GUI)
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ALL interface icons are gone?
Here's an interesting one: ALL my interface icons have disappeared since my rebooting my MacBook from safe sleep (the battery had died). Any ideas on what's going on?
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Search Results Within System Preferences Not Highlighted
This is just a minor annoyance, but usually, when typing in the search field inside of System Preferences, the icons for matching search results receive kind of a glowing background or highlight. ...
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Is there any Cloud Storage GUI for Mac?
On my iPad, I have GoodReader, as well as ReaddleDocs, and both allow me to connect to a large assortment of Cloud Storage providers. On my Windows machine, there are the Cloudberry Lab assortment of ...
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How do I make a window move to the left half of my screen and another window move to the right half? [duplicate]
On Windows 8, I type win + left and the current window becomes full-height and half the screen width and moves to the left. If I type win + right, the current window does the same except moves to the ...
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quick resize app to half of window on Lion
I am not a long-time Mac user and could find the answer.
So on Win7 there is a built-in feature when you click Win+← the window resizes to fit half of the screen and sticks to left.
Is there something ...
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Exporting a Windows Group in terminal makes redundantly named Windows Groups
OK, so I've made several Windows Groups and experimented making some open with an automatically executing command (and some that don't). My problem is that once I store such a 'group' as a clickable ...
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Can I change 10.8.2 Mountain Lion window corners from rounded to squared?
Cosmetically I'd like all four corners of all OSX windows to be squared.
This proposed half-solution failed on Mountain Lion 10.8.2.
I may have seen a mod that was possible at MacThemes forum; alas ...
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Possible to move the cursor word-by-word with Cmd+left/right instead of Alt+left/right?
I would like to use Cmd+←/→ instead of Alt+←/→ to move the cursor word by word in Mac OSX (A Cocoa thing I guess).
Is it possible to change that?
And by the same token, I would ...
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What is this white 'No items selected' popup box in save/open dialogs?
On a Mac running Lion, in the Save As dialog boxes for seemingly all applications, there's a white popup box that appears and disappears on pressing the space bar. I notice it a lot as I use a ...
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Is there a Mac OSX equivalent of zenity?
I'm porting some simple X windows/bash scripts to Mac OSX, but I cannot find a build of Zenity (a Gnome app for basic GUI dialogs) for OSX. Is there some other command line driven dialog utility I can ...
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How to open time machine progress bar window
I know that there is a window where time machine can display its current progress, along with an estimate about how long it will likely take till the current backup is complete. This window did ...
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How do I disable the OS X scrollbar when scrolling in Sublime Text 2 (Mountain Lion)?
The OS X default scrollbar obviously defeats the purpose of Sublime Text 2's minimap (which is a scrollbar by itself).
So I want it to not show up when scrolling.
I believe I've been able to do ...
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User Control screwed up but unable to click on icons with Mouse on OSX 10.8
I dont know what has happened, but today user control with mouse and trackpad on my macbookpro is screwed up.
I rebooted twice, it made no difference.
The trackpad moves the cursor okay, but I ...
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Mountain Lion Title Bar Truncation
With OSX Mountain Lion (10.8.2) there is a UI problem.
Calendar + Reminder + Sticky Note apps have truncated title text
If i login as a guest they are correct. There is clearly a preference ...
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“Cycle Through Windows” Menu Item is Missing
I recently noticed that the normal cycle through windows command was not working in many of my applications — Terminal is about the only one left that would work. I went to go check, and the Cycle ...
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How to remove AddressBook book-like interface or enable debug menu?
I wish to get rid of the Lion 10.7.5 AddressBook book-like interface a.k.a. leather appearance a.k.a. skeuomorphic design.
Usually this kind of setting can be change from the debug menu.
However $ ...
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What are the interface differences between Snow Leopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7) that can be unintuitive and frustrating to the user? [closed]
As a start, I am already aware of two:
no option to stay awake with lid closed (without external monitor)
hidden files not shown in file browser, with no obvious way to toggle the behavior
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Textual.app (IRC client): is it possible to suppress channel topic being displayed in the message window?
When joining a new channel in Textual, the topic is shown twice:
In the 'top section' of the message window and
in the message text when joining
I want to only display it in the 'top section', as ...
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What is the name of this button?
I've been calling it the "keyboard dismissal button," but I'd like to know if it has an actual name.
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UITableView - show indexed listlike Contacts app [closed]
I am using a NSFetchedResultsController to display data in a table view. I want the table view to have sections Search, A-Z, # like the Contacts app and don't want to show the empty sections, but show ...
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Launching a new instance of something instead opening existing one?
Is it possible to have app launcher(Alfred or Spotlight) to launch a new instance of an app(Finder, Terminal) instead of taking me to existing instance?
I know this question: How to make clicking on ...
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How do I run an interactive GUI application in pre-login environment?
I am interested in writing an application which runs in a pre-login environment, i.e. right after a user enters their username and password, much like how OS X does the initial account setup:
How ...
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How can I remove the window shadow in Mountain Lion?
There's an application called ShadowKiller that seems popular and supposedly works for Lion, but it just seems to die as soon as I try to start it on Mountain Lion.
I'd like to get around of the ...
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How to disable any and all eye-candy features on Mac OS X 10.6.8?
I'm going to install Linux Mint virtual machine and work primarily through there.
I want to shut off any and all eye candy on Mac to squeeze out every last bit of performance I can. Akin to "Set for ...
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Icons on buttons changed
I was tweaking my new Mac (I'm new to OS X) and suddenly I noticed that the icons in lots of my apps changed. I've checked all the things I done (using OnyX) but can't find what I done to make my apps ...
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Mountain Lion Notification Center glitches
I’m experiencing a number of issues with the Mountain Lion Notification Center and Dock. Just wanted to check whether anyone else is having similar problems.
On my 2011 iMac, the Dock doesn’t show ...
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Any *real* useful usage for the “clear key” on apple wired keyboard?
I work on Macs for over two years and still haven't done anything useful with the "clear key" (this one).
Do you know of any useful stuff it can do? Other than with the built-in Calculator app, that ...
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Custom Objects and Storyboards [closed]
Are Custom Objects (the little orange cubes) still supported when using storyboards?
Details: I was making a sample iOS App using storyboards and I added a custom object mapping a class which only ...
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Trying to get iOS 4 iPod app on a jail broken iOS 5 iPad without totally downgrading
I'm one of the many haters of the new music app because of its useabiliyt. I have an iPad 2 with iOS 5.1 installed on it. Is there any way to download the old iPod app from iOS 4 onto my current ...
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How can I draw speech bubbles like in iCal in Java [closed]
Anyone know how to do draw sth similar to this in Java and working for Linux and or Mac?
We're trying to do an introduction tutorial for JDownloader this way.
A screenshot of what I mean :)
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Is there a GUI SSH client for OS X?
I know that SSH from the command line is easy enough, but would like to give my students that use OS X a GUI option.
Is there a PuTTY equivalent for the Mac?
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How to enable the windows/linux-like “click to open/reduce windows” on the dock
There is a really intuitive behavior in windows or linux systems: when I reduce a window, it vanishes to the corresponding "dock" icon. Then, when I click on the program icon, the window shows up.
On ...
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Fix Blank Icons in Dock Stacks and Grids
I use Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), and here's my problem: Stack and grid views of folders very often look like this:
These empty boxes are not very useful for finding files quickly. When I open ...
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Why are some pop up boxes (or “select” boxes) colored blue but others aren't in Mac OS X?
I am fairly new to Mac OS X and I am wondering why some of these pop up boxes have a blue in them, but others do not. For example, on one website it looks like this (look at the little "Select site" ...
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On iPad, is there a way to go to “end of list” or “end of page” — besides going to “top of page”?
There is a way on iPad to go to top of the page or list, in email's list of emails, or in iBooks's highlighting and notes, for example, by tapping on the top status bar of the iPad screen.
But is ...
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Custom Themes for Mac OS X Lion
For older Mac OS Versions like 10.4 or sometimes 10.5 you can find lots of themes, which change the whole UI.
Now my problem is that I'm using Mac OS Lion (10.7.3) and I want to change the UI, because ...
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Simple File Transfer Logs
This may be a general Unix question rather than a OS X question.
I want to log general file transfers on OS X, whether it be from and to the same system or to another system, but to keep it simple ...
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Using SVG for Icons & UI in native iOS Applications [closed]
Is it possible to use SVG files to display buttons and other UI Elements on native iOS applications?
I'm thinking of a good way to update and future proof my icons and UI to fit the Retina display.
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How to increase the size of the OS X user interface without lowering the resolution?
I can adjust a few things, such as the Dock, but I don't see a way to say, "I want 1080p resolution, but I'm sitting 5 feet away and want bigger menus, fonts, etc across the entire system."
This is ...
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Emptying the Trash: not working
On Lion 10.7.3, when trying to empty the Trash from the GUI the items to be deleted are counted, and the the dialog doesn't progress anymore:
Stopping emptying the Trash doesn't help much either: ...
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MacPorts and Pallet GUI
I am very new to MacPorts. However after googling for a long time, I have managed to get it to work on Lion with Xcode 4.2.1. Somehow MacPorts does not work with Xcode 4.3 so far.
Now, I was looking ...
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Can I force GPU rendering on my MBP when connected to a power source?
OS X Lion is quite demanding for old Macs. Even though I own a 15'' MBP early 2011 with the 'powerful' Intel HD 3000 for integrated graphics, some animations just don't feel right (low fps).
This is ...
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How do you extend the time required to trigger hot corner actions?
I like the concept of hot corner actions but the trigger time for hot corner actions is too quick for me to make good use of them. I keep tripping my corner actions accidentally while reaching for ...
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Are there any keyboard shortcut prompt applications?
I've been dealing with repetitive stress injury in my mousing hand for many years. Each time it's flared up, I've managed to find something to delay the inevitable (e.g., switching from traditional ...
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What is your preferred way to start a (shell) script from the GUI?
I was wondering what ways there are to start a (shell) script from the GUI, e.g. double-clicking an icon in Finder or launching via Spotlight.
This is not about opening a terminal and "manually" ...
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Which Apple app condenses day names into weekday and weekend?
There's a somewhere in one of the Apple apps where they condense the days of the week into "weekdays" or "weekends" etc. can't find it. Any idea? I'm trying to mimic this in one I my apps but I can't ...
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How can I modify OSX GUI colors to be more readable for weakened vision
A bit of preface: I'm currently a Windows user but I'm looking into switching to Mac for work purposes. This of course means that I'd be staring at the UI of OSX for about 40 hours every week at least ...
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How to quickly scroll to top of long list in iOS?
I've recently hooked my MS Exchange account into Mail.app in iOS, and consequently, the list of email in my inbox is extremely long. iOS has the unfortunate habit of scrolling the mail list to the ...
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How can I move the Downloads toolbar button in Safari 5.1 and newer on OS X?
In Safari 5.1 on my Mac, the Downloads button appears on the toolbar at the right of the search bar when you download a file for the first time:
I want to move that button elsewhere on the toolbar, ...
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Tab through buttons [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I select buttons with just the keyboard?
How do I tab through buttons?
If I use the tab key it will change the selection (blue background glow) however if I ...
