After watching this video I decided to install the artist for emacs. I'm using http://emacsformacosx.com/ and I've been successful in using the tools provided in the artist install and they're awesome!
However, I want to know if it's possible to change and select tools like the guy in the video does, i.e. right click -> select tool. When I right click in Emacs I see nothing. Is this possible?
I don't know about on OSX but on my GNU/Linux machine, middle click is what brings up the tool selection menu. Is that insufficient? If so, you can manually bind artist-mouse-choose-operation to your key of choice.
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Does anyone know a clipboard manager for macOS that can be triggered via keyboard?
I used Windows for a while and found this wonderful clipboard manager, Ditto,
which has a shortcut (CTRL + ~) and had the same shortcut for navigating through all my items in the clipboard history. Pressing again ~ would go to the previous item in the history, and releasing CTRL key would trigger a dump of that value at the position of the current cursor(s).
I find that workflow just perfect and I want to recreate it somehow for mac.
Maybe write myself some utility in java/python/rust/jai? Maybe someone knows some good libraries.
Cheers.
a clipboard manager for macOS that can be triggered via keyboard?
I wanted to get the same thing for some time now,
The latest free one that has this same description is named:
Flycut
Not the best-looking one, but its functionalities are good enough for me.
I'm using Sketchbook pro for mac, the documentation that states: "Many of the tools found in the lagoon and menus have assigned hotkeys. You can also check out the Preferences window for a list of them or to remap a tool." However, the link they provide does not give information about how to remap commands.
So trying to switch gears and use hotkeys instead, now the documentation describes a method of assigned hotkeys; however, this doesn't work and nothing happens. Also mysteriously the documentation shows the lagoon with the ability for hotkeys however on my desktop this isn't what I see (see figure below)
Ultimately my goal is to assign commands to my tablet, literally I just want to assign the r key to the rectangle tool instead of the ruler as shown. The problem is that on my Wacom I can only use keystrokes and as it is there is no keystroke for the rectangle command, so frustrating.
It seems like it would be so simple to just "assign keyboard shortcuts in sketchbook pro" but I can't find a single example of it actually happening, I only find references to it being possible, like for example the end of this video see image below:
I don't mind trying to figure out how to use Applescript but I can't find any information on how to talk to sketchbook with applescript. Frustratingly there is an interface to run Applescripts...but no information about how to write applescript to interact with sketchbook commands, see figure:
I'm not sure about applescript, so I hope someone else can help.
You cannot set your own shortcuts inside of SketchBook.
You can only select from the list provided.
In your screen-cap the context of that video is setting your Wacom tablet buttons to Sketchbook hotkeys. That end slide is attempting to communicate that you can use our suggestions (which are listed in the video) or make your own configuration from the available hotkey list. It's not meant to say that you can create your own custom hotkeys.
What are you using the rectangle so much for? 🤔
Regarding AppleScript, I've checked via Autodesk Support and they replied they currently do not support it.
The fact that you see your script appearing in "Sketchbook Pro > Services" is a MacOS feature, it doesn't necessary mean Sketchbook knows about it.
I'm using PyCharm with multiple monitors on Mac OSX (10.10.5), normally you can drag windows off to a separate monitor. In PyCharm that works, but they (and in particular the Run window) snap back to the main monitor.
I've only seen this on the latest PyCharm 5 CE though its possible older versions also had the problem. I've searched all the settings and searched online, but can't find a setting that makes the window stay where it was placed.
Right click on the tab and select View Mode as Window.
Then you can move the window to another monitor.
It's crappy behaviour from the best python IDE out there.
There is a OSX solution but i'm not sure if you will like it:
You can enable old style multiple screen support again in OSX by going to System Preferences, Mission Control and uncheck "Displays have separate spaces". Now your floating windows will not snap back and you can even extend your PyCharm main window over the screens.
The downside of this solution is that you'll have the OSX dock and main menu only on your main monitor. I hope Jetbrains will fix this behaviour soon.
Another way to achieve what you want is to open multiple instances of the project. When you try to open the project for the second time you can choose "open project in new window". You can drag the new window to the second screen; it won't snap back to your primary monitor.
For Ubuntu and Windows users landing up here:
Press Shift + F4 or
Right-click and select 'Move Tab to New Window'
Drag the newly created window to the next screen
The best option is to detach an editor window and drag it to your second monitor.
Under Preferences -> 'Keys' It is possible to tick Show/hide iTerm2 with a system-wide hotkey.
However iTerm always appears on the main display (monitor) instead of where the cursor currently resides.
e.g. if I have three monitors, and am working on the third screen, the hotkey makes iTerm appear on first monitor, instead of where I am currently working.
Any advice how to solve this please?
UPDATE:
The bug strikes back again in v.3.1.6. If any workarounds are known, please share.
I'm on Sierra using iTerm 3.1 and I have the option under window to put the screen where the cursor is (bottom right drop down options). I'm using it with a hotkey.
The answer by Grant works.
The only thing you need to do is to install the beta version since there was a bug in the stable version.
This bug was fixed in 3.1.beta.1 https://iterm2.com/downloads.html
Here's the link to the latest beta version https://iterm2.com/downloads/beta/iTerm2-3_1_beta_4.zip
This may be a couple more keystrokes than you were hoping for, but if you install window management software like Size Up, you can get this working with just a few keystrokes.
Maintain your ⌥Space hotkey preference on Iterm2. Go to Size Up -> Preferences and change 'Send Window Prev Monitor' to an easy keystroke. I used ⌥1.
Now, you can do ⌥Space to get the terminal open and ⌥1 one or two times to get it to your monitor of choice. It takes a couple of key combos, but not too many!
I had this problem with macos monterey and iterm 3.4.15. I'm using the hotkey to show the terminal with slide-out window. After some search on the internet I found that disabling the option on system preferences to reopen closed documents solved the issue and the hotkey is now opening terminal on the screen with cursor as it should.
mac -> System preferences -> General -> (deselect this) Close windows when quitting an app
Neither of the above worked for me, but this helped, even though the question was quite different in that thread.
I have a few different things open in the terminal whenever I'm developing -- log tailing, Ruby console, plain shell in a certain directory, and so on.
How do I:
start all those things at once, hopefully in the right position on the screen?
make them distinct so I can switch to them with Quicksilver / Alt-Tab?
Fluid solved this problem with all of my web apps, so now I want to do it with my terminals.
And while we're on the topic, has anyone found a working solution for getting OS X to remember window positions on an external monitor? If I unplug it and plug it back in, I have to drag everything back to the same position (although at least Mercury Mover makes it possible to do it with the keyboard.)
Open Terminal, and go into Preferences, then go into the settings tab, and create a new setting for each of your windows that you want. Either give them all different colour schemes, or duplicate a colour scheme multiple times for them all to have the same settings. Under the shell sub-tab, add "Run command" to be run at shell startup. (This is the command that will cd to the directory you want, or tail a log).
Then initialise the windows as you want. Then click Window in the main menu and select Save Windows as Group...
In OSX Yosemite you can use (in Terminal) Window -> Save group. It will do all the work for you.