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What is AEServer and why is it requesting macOS Accessibility permissions?
As benwiggy already said, AEServer is a background process that processes incoming AppleEvents from remote Macs.
AppleEvents are the underlying technology used by the Apple Event Manager, which is in ...
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What is AEServer and why is it requesting macOS Accessibility permissions?
AEServer is the Apple Events Server. It is used to control Apple Events that come in from other Macs.
Check System Preferences > Sharing to see whether Remote Apple Events is turned on.
As to ...
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Removing dark borders from UI elements, including windows and buttons
You have turned on ‘Increase contrast’ in settings.
Open System Preferences, search for ‘contrast’ and unselect ‘Increase contrast’:
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Pair a bluetooth mouse with the keyboard only
Found a solution.
CMD+SPACE to open spotlight search.
Enter "mouse" and select the "Mouse" system preferences panel (probably the first item that comes up).
CTRL+F7 (or CTRL+Fn+F7) to change the way ...
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Horizontal scrolling not working in macOS calendar app
A stupid and so simple solution, which for months (if not years...) I didn't think about, is simply to right click in the calendar app (with the same two fingers you use to scroll).
And that's it, ...
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What's the best setting of iPad for senior grandma?
There is a maximum text size when changing the text size from Settings → Display & Brightness → Text Size, however larger text sizes are available. To enable these larger sizes, go to Settings → ...
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How to show NumPad on the Keyboard Viewer
The can be done via a custom panel in the Accessibility keyboard.
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How to enable/disable grayscale mode in Accessibility via Terminal/App?
This requires developer tools to compile an objective C program. The program is based on this Stackoverflow answer.
Create a file called grayscale.c with the following contents:
// clang -g -O2 -std=...
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Ways to highlight during a presentation
For Keynote presentations, by using an iOS device as a remote one can draw or use a ‘laser’ pointer on the slides. Although not as elegant as drawing focus to an element, it certainly grabs attention. ...
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When I press command key text gets highlighted and enlarged - how do I remove this features (disable Enable Hover Text)?
Sounds like you might have The "Enable Hover Text" option enabled.
System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Zoom -> Uncheck "Enable Hover Text"
Hope this helps
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How to automatically close an OS X apps after not being used for a number of minutes?
You could use Quitter by Marco Arment: https://marco.org/apps
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Ways to highlight during a presentation
Mouseposé
When turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area
around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audience‘s attention to
an area of interest.
Additionally, it has the mouse ...
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Horizontal scrolling not working in macOS calendar app
Rebooting works for me, though I'm glad to learn the workaround you linked to.
For posterity, the workaround was to go to:
System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad ...
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MacOS highlight individual words as they are spoken, as iOS
VoiceOver on macOS can do this.
Use VoiceOver Utility.app to activate move highlight cursor by word
Activate VoiceOver with Cmd+F5
Click on the text you want to read
Press Control+Alt+A to "read all"
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Switch between windows (not applications) in both directions
Another possible option for you is to use Mission Control.
Mission Control shows all windows as overlays on your screen. You can also set your Mission Control preferences (Apple > System Preferences ...
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Speak screen saying "one dollar?"
I can't really get the code of the web page/app, but checking older/similar JavaScript/PHP code of uber.com it seems to be a hick-up of the Text-to-Speech framework which probably stumbles over a ...
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Symbols appear instead of letters/numbers when typing on Mac
Your qwertyuiop result indicates that your machine thinks that both option and shift are being held down while you type. The symbols are not random but exactly what is supposed to happen when those ...
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Can 2021 MacBook Pro be permanently set to have display brightness of 1000 nits?
Hit 1,600 nits of brightness on your M1 Macbook Pro using the MacOS app Lunar.fyi
Here's the changelog for the version that introduced the feature: Lunar v5.5.1
Probably shouldn't use this for too ...
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How to hide the keyboard menu in macOS Ventura
Go to ->System Settings->Keyboard. In the Text Input section, click on the Edit button for Input Sources and turn off "Show Input menu in menu bar". See the Apple support webpage &...
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Switch between windows (not applications) in both directions
A (currently) free option:
HyperSwitch - free beta, expiry date has been extended
And more paid options:
Contexts - free trial, then $10
SuperTab - free trial, then $10
Contexts seems the most ...
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macOS grayscale except some apps
Yes, this is possible, though my solution is a bit hacky. Note that this method uses some undocumented Objective C APIs, and doesn't go through ordinary accessibility settings, so be careful.
First ...
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Can 2021 MacBook Pro be permanently set to have display brightness of 1000 nits?
No, as display systems are designed to prevent potentially damaging screen states from occurring which is what a permanent 1000 nit setting would do the screen. This could be embedded within ...
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How can I access the higher function keys (F16 in particular) on a MacBook Pro?
To remap a key, you can use the hidutil command. In this example, I am remapping F16 to the ⌥ Option on the right side (probably not used much, if at all).
hidutil property --set '{"...
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Fixing "not allowed to send keystrokes" error in Automator workflow
In my case, it worked in the past, but something changed and it stopped working. The other suggestions didn't help, but I got it to work doing the following. If you're doing it for the first time you ...
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Can only run AppleScript from Automator
Important note regarding AppleScript actions in Automator workflows.Hopefully this helps others who are looking for a fix.
Assistive Access
If your script uses things like tell application "...
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How can I set my mouse to click whenever it stops moving?
This is not a direct solution to your question but, I hope some of these suggestions will make your life a little bit easier.
Mac accessibility features are awesome. Once you identify what your ...
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Pair a bluetooth mouse with the keyboard only
Patrick solution won't work on Monterey. But if you enable full keyboard access then you will be able to use SPACE to connect to the selected device in the Bluetooth window. To turn on the Full ...
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Does iPhone X support Display Zoom?
No
Not yet. It’s a whole new UI so my guess is that has to be redone at the second scale still. Dynamic text is there and improved, though. https://twitter.com/roelvangils/status/925696251651330050
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What is this macbook keyboard popup bubble?
This is the character picker for entering accented characters. This appears when you hold down a key on the keyboard. This can be disabled globally using defaults:
defaults write -g ...
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