Questions tagged [alfred]
Use this tag for questions concerning Alfred app for macOS
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How do I allow Alfred.app to control Bluetooth on macOS Sonoma?
So I have Run Script actions in my Alfred workflows that uses the command blueutil -p 0 to turn bluetooth off.
After upgrading to macOS Sonoma 14.0, the command stops working when invoked by Alfred ...
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Spotlight index not available to Alfred or Raycast
M1 Pro MacBook Pro running MacOS Ventura 13.4
Neither Alfred nor Raycast's file search extension show any results when I search for files that I know exist (indeed, they show no files at all). The ...
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Seeking a launcher app able to properly manage files stored in iCloud
I have been evaluating several "launcher" apps, including LaunchBar, QuickSilver, Raycast, and Alfred.
As far as I can tell, none of them seems fully aware of iCloud-managed files that are ...
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Opening a OneNote Page URL in terminal on mac
I am trying to open a onenote page directly using a shell script on mac.
I know this is possible using Alfred by passing the 2nd url (beginning with onenote:) when right clicking a onenote page and '...
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How to display default chrome history in Alfred?
Alfred beginner here. I found this awesome workflow which enables chrome browser history search in alfred.
Is there a way to add default chrome browser history to it? I want to type ch and have the ...
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Toggle between two resolutions with a shortcut with Alfred
I wanna be able to toggle between these two resolutions with a single shortcut:
And I wanna have it set up in Alfred so that I may easily reuse across macs.
I believe I found most of the solution ...
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use Apple Remote to run arbitrary commands to use for alfred.app
I use Alfred.app to rate tracks in an music app "swinsian" (double cmd on keyboard gives 5star rating..globally..nice)
I would like to trigger that kind of command to alfred via apple remote ...
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Naming and switching windows
Let's say I want to dynamically assign an open window a number (or an alias) to be able to activate it quickly later.
For example, say that I manually activate a Chrome Window that contains several ...
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Is there a way to automate the movement of application windows to assigned monitors? [duplicate]
So I have a new set up: 2 large screens (top left and top right), my macbook pro (centre), and my ipad (left).
I'm a coder, I like to have my coding environment in the centre, with research on the top ...
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Is there a way to exclude certain apps from showing in the spotlight/alfred results
I mainly use Alfred to launch various apps and I am kind of annoyed when I am trying to open chrome, the chess app is the first in the results and fibre channel comes up first when I am trying to open ...
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Override system hotkeys (shortcuts) for switching between apps and tabs in MacOS 10.15
I am using MacOS 10.15.6 and already setup keyboard's system preferences to swap modifier keys. I swap Command and Control keys already. At the moment, with this new re-map applied, I must hit, ...
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Alfred is annoyed with finder
Alfred is having an issue with Finder. When I do an Alfred search for finder a window will appear provided I had previously closed it. If I have a finder window open in another desktop, Alfred will ...
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What are all possible ways a keyboard shortcut could be bound in Safari?
What are all of the ways a keyboard shortcut could be bound in Safari?
I am aware of the following:
The app’s own standard shortcuts
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts >
App Shortcuts >
All ...
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always launch new window from spotlight
I want to launch new window for all applications every time when i launch an app using spotlight or alfred. Is there any to accomplisht that?
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Alfred and Spotlight don't detect VSCode even though I've it on shortcuts
When I installed the VSCode I had added it to dock applications.
I am not able to find it/open it with Alfred or Spotlight. I tried to search for: code, VSCode, visual studio code, and nothing. It ...
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How do I check all boxes in Alfred Snippets?
I imported the Alfred Snippets Emoji pack except all the boxes to enable the many, many emojis are unchecked. How do I quickly check all these boxes? Manually checking each box will take a long while.
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Cleaning iTunes Artwork Cache, Please Wait
I pressed some keys accidentally on my Mac and then this showed up. No idea what this is. It also doesn't disappear after it finished cleaning the cache.
I have macOS 10.14.6 Mojave.
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Is it possible to show more preview subtext lines in Alfred search
When I search for something in Alfred, like in the dictionary result in the image below, it only shows one line of the subtext.
Is it possible to show more lines? Especially for word definitions, I ...
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How to enable/disable Do Not Disturb from shell on Mojave?
I've searched far and wide, but obviously not enough, to find a solution for this on macOS Mojave.
I found the answers here, but they don't work on Mojave: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/303400/...
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In AppleScript or JavaScript how can you click menu item?
I need to change a theme using a script for Mojave, Alfred and Sourcetree. I've already successfully done this with Mojave and Alfred using this script:
var alfredLightTheme = "Alfred"
var ...
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Display an overlay while a hotkey is pressed
I have recently switched to a keyboard with a particular layout, and I'd like to setup a system-wide keyboard shortcut to display an image overlay on the screen while pressed. This image would be a ...
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Alfred doesn't see Simulator app
I installed Alfred on a 10.13 machine a few days ago and it doesn't see Simulator app.
I tried to reinstall Alfred, clear Alfred cache multiple times, rebuild Spotlight index. No luck.
It works ...
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Is there a way to disable the Spotlight hot keys via the terminal?
I am trying to make configuration of a new macOS system as automated as possible. I use Alfred and prefer to use Cmd-Space to trigger the Alfred window instead of the install default of calling off to ...
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how can I filter out unwanted search results in Alfred (ie node_modules folder, caches)
Been a user of Alfred for a long time, however whenever I search anything I get a lot of FUD results due to alfred also indexing all my web project node_modules directories.
Is there any way to path-...
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Close recent windows of an application
I'm using Selenium in order to control multiple Firefox sessions at the same time.
In this context, the OS handles each Firefox window as a different application.
I want to build a workflow that'll ...
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How to make Alfred switch to currently open Chrome instead of opening a new window?
This used to be the normal behavior for me:
I have a Chrome window A open
The focus is in another program window B
I bring up Alfred and type Chrome
Chrome is the first result, selected by default
I ...
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OSA Script failing for JavaScript All the Sudden
I'm running a simple Alfred 3 workflow as I always have but the osascript portion of it is failing all the sudden. I've restarted my machine and of course Alfred 3. This is the error I get in the ...
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Replace Specific Variables In Selected Text Via Script
So for my work, I am constantly generating links that have to variables that need changed (Ex. http://www.thedomain.com/ajdkeial.html?keyword1={keyword1}&keyword2={keyword2} )
The link is ...
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How to optimise my script, a script for opening new a new emacs instance only if no instance is present
I use emacs and I have written a script which is half in bash and half in AppleScript in order to do the following (first I write the code and then the pseudocode). We assume that a emacs daemon is ...
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Any key board shortcut to move application to another workspace in MacOS sierra? [duplicate]
I want my applications to be moved between workspaces with only keyboard in MAC OS SIERRA
Is it possible to move application to next workspace by
any open source free tools ?
any alfred workflows?
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Disable slow window animation on OS X El Capitan?
I've tried the answers suggested in this question: How to turn off all animations on OS X
But so far now luck.
When an application has been recently opened, I can switch to it without seeing the ...
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how to check if a specific UI element is in focus apple script
I've searched a lot for this, but all answers talk about how bringing a whole window (or dialogue.. which is still a window really) into focus via activate etc.
But I couldn't find any way of ...
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Alfred searching through directories and filenames at the same time
Lets say I have the following structure:
~/DOCUMENTATION/UBUNTU/CHECKINSTALL reference.txt
Is there a way to configure Alfred so that when I type in the search bar "ubuntu checkinstall" it would ...
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Switching between fullscreen applications gets "stuck" on Space 1
I run all of my applications in full screen mode on a laptop without an external monitor. I almost exclusively use Alfred to swap between applications, since I'm frequently moving between more than ...
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Script to toggle internet sharing using Alfred
I tried many methods to toggle internet sharing with Alfred but its not working! Its driving me crazy!
Can anyone please help me with an AppleScript which I can paste in Alfred and assign a hot key ...
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How to disable spotlight for Alfred El Captain
I have asked this question last year. In the link below.
How to disable spotlight for Alfred
But, since the settings now changed in El Captain the answer is not valid now. Please re-answer. I don't ...
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Is there a way to fetch the icon file path of an application using AppleScript?
I'm currently writing an Alfred workflow in which I want to retrieve the icon file path linked to an application. Is there any way to do so natively using Apple Script ?
tell application "Finder"
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Launching Character Viewer (aka CharacterPalette) from command line
So, recently I have being using the Character and Keyboard Viewer a fair bit and set up simple Alfred keywords that toggle the launch/quitting of these apps so as not to have to leave the keyboard.
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Where does Alfred store web searches?
Where does Alfred store default and custom web searches that you create on your Mac?
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Is there an Alfred Workflow to install and view Alfred workflows?
I want a workflow like the cask / brew workflow for Alfred workflows. Does this already exists?
e.g. auto completion, viewing and installing and removing right from alfred instead of searching google ...
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How to disable spotlight for Alfred
I use Alfred instead of spotlight but sometimes I accidentally press cmd + space( Spotlight Shortcut ) instead of double shift( Alfred Shortcut ). I want to disable Spotlight( shortcut + not run it in ...
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Search LaTeX documentation with Alfred
I'm using Alfred v2 on Mavericks. I would like to use it to quickly locate documentation of LaTeX packages (PDF files). I have TeXLive 2014 installed in /usr/local/texlive/2014. I added /usr/local/...
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Alfred Terminal / Shell Command does not work
In Alfred, if I type > ls must open iTerm2 with that command. Well, does not work for me.
In Application if I select Terminal instead of iTerm2, works.
If I select Application → Custom, it shows ...
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Open iTerm and execute some commands automatically
I need to open some terminal sessions via iTerm 2 and execute commands on each terminal (e.g. rails s ; rails c)
How to do it via automator or alfred?
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Alfred command: switch finder directory in same window
I am an avid user of the launch application Alfred. I already have key bindings to open specific directories but when initiated, they always open the directory in a new finder window.
Im looking for ...
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Alfred 2 fails to launch after upgrade to Yosemite
I just upgraded to Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 and Alfred 2 fails to launch.
In Activity Monitor, it reports that it is not responding, and the only thing I can do is Force Quit it.
Console doesn't ...
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Web search with Alfred create new tab or new window randomly
I use google search with Alfred, but after I press 'Enter', sometime the searched content shows up in a new tab in Safari, which is what I prefer. But sometime a new window of safari is created ...
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Exclude apps from Spotlight results
Is there a way to exclude specific apps from Spotlight search results? For example, in my daily workflow I rarely open iTunes. So when I want to open iTerm2 it would be great to save the extra ...
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Find a file/folder within another folder with OSX UI
I often have project folders clientA, clientB, personalproj1 etc
and often they all have commonly used files/filers e.g. They might all have myCode.js, so when I type myReusedCode.js in spotlight (or ...
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How to diagnose Finder losing icons for folders?
After a reboot several strange issues come up from nothing.
Suddenly all system directory lost their icons: Desktop, Home, Downloads, Pictures, Movies... have the normal folder icon. Even in Finder's ...
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