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Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Mojave 10.14.1 to Developers
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Agreed, my NTB 13 inch MacBook Pro 2017 has been better than ever. Using Metal2 has made it scream.
- The only minus points have been that the marzipan apps are a bit scrappy (but you don't need to use them)
- And that dark mode is distracting when you suddenly get vast sheets of bright white appearing on apps that don't support it - and practically the entire web. Though I guess that dark mode is really meant for people using Apple Pro apps, Adobe CS and apps like Pixelmator etc.
That is too bad. I don’t think I’ll want dark mode, but I did like the dark menu and dock. Dark mode and night shift were perfect for me. I wish they wouldn’t take away options.
I have been trying to install Mojave’s for two days now. The progress bar stalls at the 3/4 way mark with the message “installation is in progress. Calculating time remaining.....”
Now what?
Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Mojave 10.14.1 update to developers, just one day after releasing the macOS Mojave update.
macOS Mojave introduces a new method of installing software updates, so after the initial beta has been installed using the appropriate profile from the Developer Center, additional betas can be downloaded through opening up System Preferences and choosing the "Software Update" option.
It's not yet clear what improvements the first update to macOS Mojave will bring, but it likely includes performance improvements and bug fixes for issues that weren't addressed in the first release of macOS Mojave. It also likely re-introduces support for Group FaceTime, a feature that was removed during the beta testing period. Group FaceTime, which lets you chat with up to 32 people at once, is also present in the iOS 12.1 beta.
macOS Mojave is a major update that brings features like a systemwide Dark Mode, stacks for organizing messy desktops, new Finder capabilities, new tools for taking screenshots, a Continuity Camera option for easily transferring photo scans and documents from iPhone to Mac, and more.
Should we find new notable features in the first beta of macOS 10.14.1, we'll update this post.
Article Link: Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Mojave 10.14.1 to Developers
Like many eye-candy features, Dark Mode was fun...for a while, but I found too many websites or other apps, where the color contrast would wash-out text to the point that it was unreadable. Perhaps over time, developers will tweak their software to adapt to when 'dark mode' is detected.
And to put back to normal what command?
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No
and if firefox 62 messes up then:
Terminal: defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance
Is there a menu bar app yet that does this?
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NOT True. Try the following in the terminal:
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES
And then restart your computer or log in/out (and thank the person who pointed this out to me and others who bother reading the forums)
That worked. You have to log out for it to take effect. So now I can see what Mojave would look like and I'm really sad. Text is definitely harder to read. It looks thinner, more jagged, and less rich.
For a company that sells itself on aesthetics this is dropping the ball big time. This also repudiates the whole concept of an iMac. With an iMac you are stuck with the display it came with. And worst of all Apple still sells non retina screens.
Im on a 2012 15" cMBP, This command
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
seems to make my fonts appear better than before.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/9im603/mojave_fonts_super_thin/
EDIT: you should restart your Mac after applying the change. To reverse change NO to YES.
Not gonna fix Apple's mess with terminal lines. That's not a fix , that's a cheap workaround.
I am assuming that there was no global setting initially, as you suggest, removing the setting is the reverse:
defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance
Note, with defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YES set, forcing apps to light in dark mode, you can flip individual apps to dark mode still, by setting at the app level... e.g. the following will keep corresponding apps dark:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Notes NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.iCal NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.stocks NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO
I have Firefox 62, and it didn't mess up for me... it seems to ignore the global setting...
Pessimistic much?.....I think the UI has improved over HS, Im not a font nazi so could careless about that. Battery life so far on my 2017 Macbook seems fine, my audio works great on my Macbook. I don't use Safari so.... Apple keep up the great job so far.
I'm using a 30" Cinema Display with my 2013 Mac Pro and just updated to Mojave, and also have a second 30" ACD sitting next to my Mac Pro for my mini (still on High Sierra). I honestly can't tell any difference between the font rendering in Mojave vs. High Sierra, side by side. Do fonts render differently on different displays? Or maybe the 30" ACD has a high enough DPI that I just can't tell the difference.
Edit: Pretty much everything is much smoother with 10.14 on my 2013 nMP. The machine also now shuts down quickly and cleanly every time and I haven't had any windowserver crashes yet! *knock on wood*
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Trying to decide the same thing myself: do I hack Mojave onto my 2011 mini or sit comfortably with High Sierra until Apple releases a new mini?
That's my opinion vs your opinion, I do use Safari so it effects me.Pessimistic much?.....I think the UI has improved over HS, Im not a font nazi so could careless about that. Battery life so far on my 2017 Macbook seems fine, my audio works great on my Macbook. I don't use Safari so.... Apple keep up the great job so far.
I guess you dont understand how computers work. Changing system settings is a cheap workaround. Hilarious.
Here is a screen shot of the text in terminal before executing the command I posted earlier and after. You can see the window in front of the previous screenshot has a bit less blur to the font.
I have been running both Mojave and High Sierra on supported Macs and non supported Macs. It hasn't really given us that much that I would run it on a 2011 Mac mini. You will have graphics anomalies using HD 3000. If it's a 2011 Mac mini With an AMD GPU I wouldn't consider it at all, there is no acceleration with 6 series AMD GPU's.
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oh well, here we go again. And that’s mostly due to incompetent beta testers - not discovering bugs as we know them.
It seems obvious to me that you don’t really care about this issue, but you’re here just to complain.
1050792 isn't entirely wrong. Having a dark menu bar and Dock clearly isn't a supported configuration any longer, and will break at some point.
This looks like the same argument used by PC DOS users back in the early 90's when dismissing the Mac.
Thanks for the screenshot. I actually prefer the look of the original text before the terminal command. To me it looks as if all the letters have the same "weight," whereas after the terminal command some letters appear darker than others. Isn't the sub-pixel rendering different in Mojave from previous versions anyway?
He is right in one respect-it's not a real fix. This is a big issue for non-retina users.