Agreed. Status Bar is typically associated with Safari.
And I am unable to locate the option for "Automatically hide and show the menu bar app." in System Preferences/General.
Is Menu Bar App new?
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Agreed. Status Bar is typically associated with Safari.
And I am unable to locate the option for "Automatically hide and show the menu bar app." in System Preferences/General.
Is Menu Bar App new?
I didn’t know about command + ~ (tilde) to switch between multiple windows of the same app. That is a really useful shortcut.
It should work for other apps too. I just tested it on El Capitan and it worked in Safari.
It should work for other apps too. I just tested it on El Capitan and it worked in Safari.
where can i get that wallpaper?
edit: nevermind. i should have looked first.
http://www.wallpapermaiden.com/wall...-lake-mountains-digital-art/download/1280x800
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wallpaper+lake+deer&iax=images&ia=images
edit: nevermind. i should have looked first.
http://www.wallpapermaiden.com/wall...-lake-mountains-digital-art/download/1280x800
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wallpaper+lake+deer&iax=images&ia=images
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You're right, I should have called it the menu bar. I've updated. Thank you
I've also fixed the bit that said option shift didn't work with Touch Bars, it does! I'm not sure what I was doing wrong earlier, but so long as the Touch Bar is expanded, it works when you tap the volume keys. Thank you guys for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
5. Touch Bar Escape Keyboard Command - If you hate the non-physical escape key on Apple's Touch Bar MacBook Pros, there's a keyboard command alternative that's supported by most apps. Use Command + Period in lieu of the escape key to do things like exit out of full screen windows.
Out of interest does this work on a Mac without a touchbar?
I just tried it out on my old iMac running El Capitan but it didn’t exit out of fullscreen Safari or do anything noticeable.
The ESC key works fine for me, but I was just interested to know.
Command + ~ is one I use nearly every day. It works in every app that has more than one window open currently (such as Finder or Safari or Pages). Try opening another window if you can't get it to work on the app you're using.
It used to work for me in a previous version but at some point that functionality disapperead for me. Its a shame because i really liked that shortcut. Ive opened extra windows in safari, and there is no menu option for ‘cycle through windows’ in the window section
Thank you so much, wish I knew this a long time ago. I used to do the extra unnecessary step of doing searches in finder instead of spotlight just to find locations
Also #7 (command + tilde) in the original article is a brilliant tidbit I never knew, and will find mega useful going forward. Great article.
#1 not working for me either (cmd-V for paste and match style). Tried in Mail and Notes (High Sierra).
CORRECTION: Does work! You need to match the regular menu title exactly. Like it says...
Mojave hasn’t been released yet, so you can’t say wether they scratched it or not.In macOS Mojave, 6 no longer works. That was one of my favorite things to do for video edits
If you hold just Option when hitting any of the volume keys (up/down/mute), it will open the Sound preferences.
Same goes for
- brightness (opens Displays)
- Mission Control (opens Mission Control preferences)
- keyboard brightness (opens Keyboard preferences)
Option-pressing media playback keys and the Launchpad keys seems to do nothing.
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Long-standing iOS irritation: there are only 16 levels of volume when using the volume buttons! It's pretty easy to get "caught" between two when adjusting the volume to your preferred level. This carries through with connected Bluetooth speakers and headphones with volume controls.
Why not at least 32 levels or even 64? If there's a concern about volume changes being too slow, play with the acceleration so it changes faster as you hold it. Not exactly UI rocket science.
Feels like a very basic shortcoming in a device that gets used frequently used for audio playback.
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Great tips as usual! I’ve been using Macs every day for over 30 years but I always get something out of these I didn’t know.
Don't know if what I say is actually true (More levels): If you slide up in iOS you get into control centre, next hold the volume, a bigger one shows up (Full screen), seems to me there are more levels there.
For #5 -- that is a throw back to old apps where command-. was used as a stop / terminate -- whatever. Another alternative if you need to "send" an escape is control-[ since that is what escape really is.
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Really? I've let to find an app where it doesn't work. e.g. Safari, Terminal, etc.
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Really? I've let to find an app where it doesn't work. e.g. Safari, Terminal, etc.
CMD SHIFT KEY WITH THE @ SIGN? (It's the backtick/grave accent [not the tilde] that you want.)
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Number 7 should be CMD BACKTICK/GRAVE ACCENT (not tilde), according to Apple:
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/user-interaction/keyboard/
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