New answers tagged keyboard
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A workaround is move the windows you want to switch between to another desktop, in that desktop every window belongs to a different application.
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Using Karabiner event, it seems like keystrokes on Fn keys are not detected by the Mac. Can I fix it?
You can’t remap the Fn key as it’s an internal keyboard modifier and not sent to the OS
See this answer from a similar question for full details.
Basically, if a scan code isn’t sent by the keyboard to be received by the OS (and the Fn code isn’t), ...
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General tab in Safari preferences.
Open “safe” files after downloading
In Safari, automatically open the listed types of files but not software.
https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/ibrw1072/12.0/mac/10.14.5
I don't know if you count right click as "hunting around", but you can right click on an empty part of the PDF and select "open with ...
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Apple products use Control + Space to switch keyboards (never Control + Shift). Some keyboards have a "globe" key which does the same thing. Also you can use Caps Lock for English/Greek via an iOS setting.
If you are not using an Apple product, you need to ask in a different forum.
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Separated the two applications into two separate dictation commands using applescript in automator. The latter controls the Youtube video on the tab Chrome last interacted with, which is essentially perfect.
on is_running(appName)
tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end is_running
if is_running("iTunes") then
...
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Step 1: Find out device ID of Wi-Fi
$networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder | grep Wi-Fi
(2) Wi-Fi
(Hardware Port: Wi-Fi, Device: en0)
In this case it is en0
Step 2: Create a "Quick Action" using Automator.app. Set "no input" in "workflow receives" in "any application". Drag and drop "Run Shell Script" and add the following shell script to the text field.
...
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Check out Rectangle App. It's free, open-source, and is billed as the spiritual successor to the once brilliant (but sadly, no-longer-maintained) Spectacle.
You can install Rectangle App either via their website or with Homebrew: $brew cask install rectangle
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You can use your mousewheel to pan up and down. Use Shift + mouse-wheel to pan left and right.
I just found that it may be easier to use Quick Look for the feature you're after. In finder, select your file and press the Spacebar to open it in Quick Look. Then if you use command+ you can zoom in. Then you can click and drag to pan.
Use command- to zoom out,...
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As Sleep exists as a menu command, you could make your own…
System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts
Select All Applications, press the + button, type Sleep then pick a key command - I'd pick something hard to do by accident, like maybe Cmd ⌘ Opt ⌥ Ctrl ⌃ Shift ⇧ S
I used D in the example image, because I already have S used for ...
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System Preferences- Language and Region- at the bottom of the box click "Advanced"- then choose the dot/ comma under Number separators- Decimal and again under drop down box "decimal" under currency.
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I just fixe my same issue. My issue would occur when my USB keyboard would stop working on my laptop after unplugging it and replugging it in while my computer was on. I would then have to reboot my computer all over again for it to work.
Restart or Start your computer in safe mode and then once you logged in try doing all the things with you keyboard that ...
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I found this article suggesting me to delete a file
running the following command, then doing a reboot followed by running the assistant again fixed the issue!
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist
This was also mentioned in the article @Tom Gewecke commented above, but I overlooked it when I did not find the mentioned file in finder. ...
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I got a problem with VS code my Command + click was not working because of some Javascript issue but I figured it out by doing Option + click. You can have a try and see if it works for you.
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Just in case somebody needs to know where the fn key on the LMP keyboard is:
(in case the picture is not loading: It is two rows above the left arrow key.)
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WiFi Diagnostics Keyboard Shortcut in macOS Catalina
It looks like cmd+ctrl+option+shift+w triggers a WiFi Diagnostics session.
Browse to /Private/var/tmp and you'll see 300MB+ files titled WiFiDiagnostics_YYYY-MM-DD_IP4-address_Mac OS X_MacModelName.tgz
I can't find any official documentation on this, and I believe this is new for Catalina.
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Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources and make sure this is set to "German Standard" and not "German".
If this does not do the trick, or if you do not have the choice of German Standard, then it is pretty easy to make a custom layout to put this character anywhere you like with the app Ukelele.
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Holding esc can stop many pages from loading/ progressing.
You can also disable JavaScript in Develop menu (safari preferences → advanced, enable it) if such popups are asking for login etc. This works only if the content loads without JS, or before banner is added.
You can install content blockers, ad blockers which can zap the troubling elements from ...
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I know this will not help you but maybe others (worked for me for german layout on external keyboard):
If "<" and "^" are switched on an external keyboard, the easiest way to "switch" them back is: if you are asked to press the button right to the left shift key (on german layout "<") you simply press the button it is switched with, afterwards ...
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The UI was simply changed in Catalina. In Catalina, ticking "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" is identical to selecting "All controls" in Mojave. Unticking "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" in Catalina is identical to selecting "Text boxes and lists only" in Mojave.
You can confirm this using Terminal in both ...
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When you go into the Settings of Chrome, you will find a Auto-Fill chapter on the left menu bar. Click there and you can manage all your addresses, credit cards and passwords which are used for the autofill function.
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The easy way to measure latency is with video and even iPhone 11 can capture 240 frames per second, so you’ll be within 5ms of measurement error.
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
If you have noticeable lag, it’s going to be likely you can use activity monitor to see what is slowing the processor or perhaps detect you have an issue on the USB bus resetting if ...
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Just found the solution here: https://gist.github.com/mcandre/a1c6915d2e338fef6a42e54655d28062
Go to "Add Bluetooth or other device"
Find the wireless keyboard and hit connect.
When prompted for a pin, enter anything on the screen, I used "123123". I dont know what else will work.
NOW IS THE IMPORTANT PART.
HIT 'Connect' and IMMEDIATELY enter '123123'+ENTER ...
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All those shortcuts you mention work with control+_. So either you can remap your option key to behave as control, or make yourself habitual of using control.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
Swap CMD and Alt only on external keyboard
How do I remap a key in macOS Sierra, e.g., Right Alt to Right Control?
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I had the same issue with stuck left Shift forcing me into safe mode and couldn't fix it in software from macOS as the Shift is processed by the firmware before the operating system (or in fact anything) is loaded from disk.
I didn't know about the Option trick in @Udhy answer and have now replaced the keyboard but it would be a better workaround than what ...
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On the basis of your current issue where you want to bypass Safe Mode, then
Hold the Option button down on boot to bypass the Safe Mode ensures a normal boot
However, you have mentioned that your keyboard is not working as expected. If you can afford it, I would recommend replacing the top case and keyboard. But, as an alternative
Download and install ...
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On the UK keyboard you can do it by pressing 'shift' and 'function' with the 3 button. no need to change your settings
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Normally we use ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file to customize some keys.
{
"~p" = "moveUp:";
"~n" = "moveDown:"; /* not really works */
}
However I found it does not work for alt-n.
Would you consider to use ctrl-p and ctrl-n instead? It is of standard emacs/readline key combination.
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Restarting my mac in safe mode 4 or 5 times solved the issue for me.
Reason: When restarting in safe mode, mac clears all the font cache and setting.
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Download Gboard
Switch to 123
Hold apostrophe '
Choose first one (grave accent)
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System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts tabs → App Shortcuts. Use + button to add new shortcut and enter exactly what "Quit Atom" menu item says in atom app. I use cmd + escape for Safari, VSCode and Xcode where I accidentally press Q instead of tab, w, 1, 2, 3 etc. and it's been great so far. I've been using it for ~3 months now.
Both global and ...
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You may want to have a look at an App called AirType. According to the developer, it works on Mac, Windows and Linux machines and the requirements are iOS 8 and above as well as both devices being on the same network.
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There is another way! Going off of the other answers you can actually access the other windows of a single application using Ctrl + Down. Now you can simply press any arrow to navigate through all the windows that are open or minimized.
If you didn't want to focus on the window you were on and wanted to cancel the whole thing and return to the window of ...
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Yes I had a similar issue: periodically Gboard keyboard would crash after a second or two (and iOS replacing it with standard keyboard). Not doing anything, simply clicking to write, wait 2 seconds and the screen would change with the standard keyboard. The first time I solved it like I deleted the Gboard app and reinstalled it & rebooted.
But now I ...
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