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This is a simple thing but I don't see it in settings.
So, I'm in my new Mac, working in a program like Safari or Firefox. I have a window in the background for another program, and it has a button. I want to click that button but have to click twice, once to switch programs and once to click the button.
I want my mouse to be "hotter" than that. Is there any way to do this?
Somewhat useful: you can hold Command and click to a non-focused window. The click will go through, however, the window will not get focus. It's useful if you have a partially covered window in the background, and you want to keep it that way, while clicking it.
BUT, if you have two windows side by side, which are not covered, it is UTTERLY frustrating that you have to click TWICE every time you want interact with them interchangeably. It would be really nice if there was an option to disable this "feature"...
This is called click-through, and guidelines for its usage are covered in Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. By default, all Cocoa controls support click-through and the feature must be turned off by the software developer. Some reasons to turn it off are covered in the Guidelines:
Avoid providing click-through for an item or action whose result might be dangerous or undesirable. Specifically, avoid enabling click-through for an item that:
Performs a potentially harmful action that users can’t cancel (for example, the Delete button in Mail)
Performs an action that is difficult or impossible to cancel (such as the Send button in Mail)
Dismisses a dialog without telling the user what action was taken (for example, the Save button in a Save dialog that overwrites an existing file and automatically dismisses the dialog)
Removes the user from the current context (for example, selecting a new item in a Finder column that changes the target of the Finder window)
To answer the actual question: No. There is no global setting for this. While it could be possible for an individual application to implement settings for itself, it's not something that I've seen.
Edit: To answer the other part of the question, is there any way to do this?, the answer is sort of. If you search for Mac focus follows mouse or Mac sloppy focus, you'll find some utilities such as Zooom/2 that focuses on each window as the mouse passes over. That is something that would annoy some people, but may work for you.
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I upgraded to Catalina, thumbnail preview stopped working on my desktop.
I tried everything that I know, "Show icon preview" is ticked, Preview app is applied to open all kinds of images, but still just the generic icons appears. This is very frustrating, since I am working with images and video files, that I need quick access to.
Hope to someone help me with this.
I was able to resolve the preview issue by doing following.
In Finder, press Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + G and enter ~/Library/Preferences.
Then find com.apple.finder.plist and move it to the Trash.
Right-click on the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch.
Press and hold the Option Key
Right-Click or Control-Click Finder in your Dock (maintain holding Option)
Select Relaunch from the pop-up menu (If you don’t see it make sure you hold Option before right-clicking Finder)
If this doesn't work, ensure that JPG files are associated with Preview. To do this, right-click on one of them and choose Get Info. Under the Open With section, select Preview, and then click Change All. You may need to relaunch Finder with this method too.
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I'm using a mac book pro.
When I'm pressing the upper left corner green button - it makes the window
into full screen and hides the dock bar.
I want my window to be almost full screen - I want the dock bar to remain.
One option is to manually starch it, but this is something that needs to be done every time.
Is there a way of customizing the upper left green button for that?
The functionality you're looking for is known as "zooming" the window. It used to be that the green button did that, but these days it enters full-screen mode instead. If you hold down the Option key when you click the green button, it reverts to the old zoom operation. You can also use the Zoom item of the Window menu. You can also configure things so that double-clicking on the title bar zooms the window, on the Dock pane of System Preferences.
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Not sure why but since recently, the Slack icon in bottom right notification area (Windows 10) isn't visible anymore despite Slack app being checked in "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" section. Consequently I need to keep Slack open at all times in my app bar (which I don't want because it's crowded).
Any idea what's causing the problem here?
Additionally, every time there is a Slack client app update, you have to go into the "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" in Windows 10 to turn on the "new" icon. It seems this changes when the application is updated.
Update on August 5th, 2018. This issue has been around for nearly two years. I sent them this message on the 'help' issue I first submitted 19 months ago:
People,
This issue has persisted for over a year, and a Slack update this morning did the same thing - the icon is in the notification overflow window, instead of on the taskbar. If there is one application that MUST always be visible in the taskbar, it is Slack, and you keep falling down on this basic requirement.
Clearly, with every Slack client update, the operating system thinks it's a new app (with a new GUID or whatever the nomenclature is), so defaults to the notification icon being in the overflow. This is on you. No other application that uses notification icons does this after an update. None. Okay, maybe not none, but I have never encountered another one, and I am a super geek.
It also doesn't help, that after a client update, the old client runs until exited (as the taskbar icon remains visible), but on the next launch, the icon goes into the overflow. So it might appear to the uninformed that the Slack client update didn't trigger the problem, but it did.
Seriously, you need to mark this as important. It only takes about 10 seconds for us users to change the setting on the new icon, after we discover it's missing. But that 10 seconds is multiplied by the number of users who want that icon to stay visible, for every update. That is a LOT of wasted time.
In Windows 10, you have to right-click on the tray (the area you referred to as "notification area") to be able to customize which icons are visible, choose Properties, and then click the Customize button.
From here, click “Select which icons appear on the taskbar”. Enabled items will show permanently on the tray bar.
Here you have a step-by-step guide to solve this issue.
Keep in mind, however, that the you also have to enable the option to "leave the application running in the notification bar" from Slack, as pointed out by Somnath Muluk
At some point my slack icon disappeared from the taskbar, and it turned out it was in the hidden icons popover(triggered by the arrow on the left of the icons list). I was able to put it back on the taskbar by simply dragging it there from the popover.
When Slack is running, you’ll find a Slack icon in your notifications area. You'll see a blue dot when you have unread activity on one of your Slack teams, and a red dot when you've received a mention, announcement, or direct message.
Click your team name to open the Team Menu.
Select Preferences.
Click to the Windows App tab.
Check the Leave app running in notification area when the window is closed option.
From Preferences, you can also choose how you want the Slack icon to flash in the taskbar when a notification is received: Never, When left idle, or Always.
Note: The icon will stay in the taskbar if your preference is set to Always flash when a notification is received.
Reference: App icon notifications
I found the setting in File > Preferences > Windows App: "Leave app running in notification area when the window is closed" to be opposite of what I expected. When I unchecked the option, the icon appeared in the notification area. Once the icon appeared I could adjust the Notification Preferences to "Show icon and notifications".
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I posted this in the Apple support forums with no answer, so I'm hoping I'll be able to get one here.
I finally got around to upgrading my MacBook Pro to Lion, and one of the first things I've noticed is that my Command-Left Arrow/Right Arrow key combinations stopped working completely; no matter what application or context I try to use them in, they don't work at all. In Snow Leopard, I used them primarily for moving to the beginning and end of a line in text apps (Komodo IDE, TextWrangler, etc.), changing rooms in Colloquy, and other things. But no matter where I used them, the combination is not recognized. However, if I use them in combination with other keys, such as Option-Command-Right/Left Arrow or Shift-Command-Right/Left Arrow, they work fine. As an example, if I go into my Komodo preferences and try to set a key binding for navigating to the end of a line, the key combination does not even register; but if I do Command-Alt-Right/Left Arrow, it registers fine. In web page textareas, however, even those combinations don't work. Command-Up/Down Arrow combos work fine, but nothing happens with left/right arrows.
In searching these forums and other places, I've seen remedies such as killing the dock (running "killall Dock" from Terminal), some swiping and re-selecting of apps from Mission Control, and other things that seem to have worked for other people with the same problem, but nothing has corrected the problem for me. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this?
Thanks.
Open a terminal and type killall Dock. It seems to be a bug with the Dock. After that the Dock will restart and you should have your shortcut back (I did!).
Check System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts to see if those key combinations have been assigned to some feature.
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can someone rephrase this below sentence so that the user can easily understand the below line
" Please turn off the pop up blocker by going to tools option > pop up blocker > turn off pop up blocker in the browser and try again"
“We are still using pop-up windows, even though they're a usability disaster that everyone hates, and for some reason we're still trying to launch them without direct user interaction.
Because we are too lazy to make our site conform to the requirements of every modern web browser, we humbly request that you change your global browser settings. This will allow any web page to flood your desktop with unwanted browser spam, making your experience on the public internet intolerably awful. But it's worth it, right?”
(In reality, if you really must, provide a simple link that the user can click on to attempt to open the pop-up again. Every browser's default settings allow clicked links to open a pop-up. The user's settings need not and should not be changed.)
From your "here we use only IE" it looks like your on an intranet and stuck with something difficult/impractical to change.
An appropriate message would be;
This site uses Pop-up windows which are disabled in your browser.
To enable Pop-up windows please do the following:
From the Tools menu, click "Pop-up Blocker"
Click "Pop-up Blocker Settings"
In the "Address of website to allow" box enter your.site.com
Click Add then Close
(assumes ie7/8)