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Cmd+Tab App Switcher is on the wrong monitor

This displays app switcher on both the screens. Works on MacOS Monterey 12.3.1 defaults write com.apple.dock appswitcher-all-displays -bool true killall Dock If it isn't working for you even after ...
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Is there a way to use windows keymap/keybindings with VS Code on Mac OS X?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=smcpeak.default-keys-windows Installing this extension did the trick.
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Disable audio output to DisplayPort device

Same problem with Sierra and a Dell P2715Q, here. It seems like a display with no audio shouldn't trigger this, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ With the display connected and no headphones, I used the Sound ...
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Can't see unread emails in some inboxes in thunderbird (osx mavericks)?

I had the same problem. Inbox showing (5) messages unread, but I couldn't see any unread message. I fond the solution here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/994807 right-click on inbox ...
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Unicode filenames in Windows vs. Mac OS X

Windows uses UTF-16. Most codepoints are encoded in two bytes. Codepoints outside the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane) are encoding in a "surrogate pair" that takes four bytes. Windows does not ...
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SSH on a local machine is slow with Mac os X server

This may or may not apply, but I'm putting it out there because my issue is similar, and I found a workaround. For connections going into my Mac (such as SSH), I was experiencing lag/latency. For ...
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Open new Finder tab when using 'open .' in the Terminal

Probably a bit late, but in case other people are still searching for this. In macOS Big Sur this works: System preferences > General > Prefer tabs > select always from the dropdown menu. Now ...
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How to mount WebDav filesystem on Mac?

In (at least) 10.9 and 10.10, mounting via WebDAV via the command line isn't easy -- the mount_webdav command does not work the way it is documented and fails silently leaving an empty mount point ...
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.docx document can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer

I've been having the same issue with a file that I created in Apple's Numbers.app (originally in Numbers '09 2.3, then migrated to 3.6.2). I believe that Gatekeeper doesn't scan the file content. ...
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Install OS X: USB bootable, launch path not accessible

From our experience here, it doesn't matter if you're downgrading or installing OS X from scratch. Also, we had this issue with physical as well as (VMware Fusion 8.1.1 Pro) virtual machines with ...
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How to setup Windows 7 in Qemu on MAC?

qemu is a command line program, therefore all interactions with it have to be made using some shell. Luckily you can create Automator.app little apps to open the VM after the setup of the OS is done,...
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Disable audio output to DisplayPort device

Unloading the com.apple.driver.AppleGFXHDA kext caused the displayport audio drivers to be removed immediately. sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleGFXHDA You will need to persist this across ...
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Disable audio output to DisplayPort device

Plug an AUX cable into the monitors audio output without the other end of the cable plugged into anything. You have to leave it dangling there at all times but it will solve this problem. This is ...
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Mac OSX: Keep window on top

Unfortunately, it is against Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, ever since pre-OS X, MacOS 8 and even pre-System 6 and 7 (see the Original HIG PDF). Even modal dialogs were/are frowned upon. Hence, ...
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How do you duplicate current open Finder view in new tab (Mavericks)?

On previous versions of MacOS (Before Monterey) - Cmd + Ctrl + O - worked perfectly...you could even Cmd + double click on a folder in the Finder path bar to open a new window at that location. Or if ...
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Mac Finder windows aren't active & can't close

I had the same problem. This article pointed me toward turning off file sharing services to see if it helps and it turned out Google Drive was the culprit for me. What I did to diagnose the source of ...
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Difference in plain text in Win10 vs OS X

I'd guess that TextEdit doesn't use a monospace font by default. Tab files rely on predictable spacing, and monospaced fonts (fonts where each character gets exactly the same space as every other ...
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Cmd+Tab App Switcher is on the wrong monitor

It sometimes happens together with the Dock being unresponsive. Restarting Dock helps. Type in terminal: killall Dock
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Removing the Apple sound effect when changing volume levels in a boot camp assisted installation of Windows 8

Right click Volume icon in Windows system tray Click "Open Volume Mixer" from context menu If item "Boot Camp Manager" IS showing: click on Blue Speaker below slider to mute channel Alternatively ...
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Error connecting to synergy on mac server

Mac sure you set the screens names on both server and client to not have any special chars. Restart software. On the server click preferences and make sure that the computers shown both have the ...
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2 votes

Remote user password does not work for SSH

After updating to Catalina, I had a similar problem. The reason was in the strict rules of the sshd set by default. To solve it, in the config file /private/etc/ssh/sshd_config Add the following ...
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Install OS X: USB bootable, launch path not accessible

Just chiming in to say I had this issue with a copy of the Mavericks Installer and Alex's answer solved it right away. Just ran chmod -R +x . from Terminal in the installer after a cd .. all the way ...
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VNC attack attempts on OS X 10.10 -- should I worry/respond?

It looks like somebody is connecting using a RealVNC, TightVNC or Tiger VNC client, that's why username is N/A. If your VNC anonymous password is really simple then you should worry, otherwise - no. ...
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How can I make sure all my Mac's TCP traffic goes through a SOCKS5 proxy?

The only free solution I found is tun2socks which requires you to setup your own routes, I followed the official docs https://github.com/xjasonlyu/tun2socks/wiki/Examples But had to exclude the entry ...
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How to install Windows on an iMac without using Boot Camp?

If you don't want to have a separate OS, Parallels Desktop for Mac puts a virtual window on your Mac Desktop with Windows. A free alternative is VirtualBox although requires more computer knowledge. ...
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Can't use homebrew installed git

When using homebrew to update git on your machine, follow the following steps: brew doctor Fix the suggested issues brew update if there is a newer version of homebrew available brew install git to ...
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Installing Mavericks in VirtualBox

I think this is answered by Mark at: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106476/how-to-install-os-x-mavericks-in-virtualbox# I normally would include a summary to external sites (but it's a ...
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Scrolling with a mouse on a Mac - either too fast or too slow

I've had the same issue and found that increasing the scrolling speed helps resolving this issue. In Macbook Air 2019, the scrolling speed is controlled via: System Preferences > Accessibility > ...
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Macbook wont open ports

I'm trying to allow my phone to access a locally hosted website on my Macbook Pro as I develop it! Ok. so we have at least two different devices here. it is running 127.0.0.1 on port 5000 ...
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Casting a tab in Chrome has stopped working

What's worked for me was enabling Connect to Cast devices on all IP addresses by typing chrome://flags/#media-router-cast-allow-all-ips and changing the dropdown to "Enabled". It turns out ...
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