Difference between revisions of "MacOS Tips"

Revision as of 17:23, 31 August 2022

hitting the CLEAR button to enable the numeric keypad on an Apple keyboard ^[1]
Dual 27" display brightness control
- if using an apple kb
  - main monitor - brightness button on kb
  - 2nd monitor - control + brightness button on kb ^[2]
turn off dual menu bars (which is the default setting for a new user)
- uncheck "Displays have separate spaces" in System Preferences /Mission Control. And log out and log in.^[3]
Turn off default two-sided printing ^[4]
hold down option to change Finder column width for all columns -- new width becomes default. ^[5]
To display menu bar on all connected monitors:
- System Preferences / Mission Control / check "Displays have separate Spaces" ^[6]
After connecting a new drive, system becomes unresponsive after leaving it alone for 10 seconds
- Spotlight may be indexing the new drive. Add drives you don't want Spotlight to index in System Preferences.

Shortcut to expand all folders in Finder's list view: "mouse/trackpad-clicking the triangle while holding the Alt/Option or Command key"^[7]

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 * To display menu bar on all connected monitors:
 ** System Preferences / Mission Control / check "Displays have separate Spaces" <ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/sketchbook-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/SKETPRO-Help/files/sb-basics/SKETPRO-Help-sb-basics-secondary-monitor-setup-mac-users-html-html.html</ref>
-* System seems unresponsive after leaving it alone for a few mins
+* After connecting a new drive, system becomes unresponsive after leaving it alone for 10 seconds
-** check if Spotlight is indexing a newly connected drive, if so, turn Spotlight off
+** Spotlight may be indexing the new drive.  Add drives you don't want Spotlight to index in System Preferences.
 == Finder ==