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Category: macOS

looks like the Fink build system on my Mac works again – after a simple “fink selfupdate” – I have long waited for that

Fink, a distribution of Unix software for Mac OS X and Darwin
http://www.finkproject.org

2019-09-24
How-to: Use Preview to put signatures on PDF’s, Pages Documents, and Mail messages – 9to5Mac
- https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/15/how-to-use-preview-to-put-signatures-on-pdfs-pages-documents-and-mail-messages/
I discovered that lovely feature right now myself – and then I looked for a nice description – you may like it yourself.
2019-09-10
how to turn off “autocorrect” on iOS and macOS
- https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-fix-autocorrect-issues-on-ios-or-macos/
Der article praises the feature quite comprehensibly.

But I never got friends with autocorrect during the last many years, and I doubt, I ever will. I am not patient enough to teach the system my vocabulary. Actually the system should deal with me communicating in English, German, Hebrew, and French. Either by explicitly switching languages, or by recognising that itself. But anyway, it’s not for me (so far).

I decided to switch off autocorrect on iOS and macOS, and I am happy with that.
2019-09-10
macOS: changing keyboard input language
- https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15173/changing-keyboard-input-language-on-mac-osx
2019-08-06
macOS: how to show or hide Keyboard Viewer with a keyboard shortcut?
- https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59875/how-to-show-or-hide-keyboard-viewer-with-a-keyboard-shortcut
I like the the non-mousing approach best: Fn+Ctrl+F8.
2019-08-06
How to edit your Mac’s Hosts file and why you would want to
- https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/edit-hosts-file-mac-os-x/
- https://www.imore.com/how-edit-your-macs-hosts-file-and-why-you-would-want
2019-03-14
macOS: pbcopy, pbpaste – provide copying and pasting from/to the “pasteboard”
2019-03-12
macOS: CPU 100% use – sharedfilelistd and distnoted hog CPU
- https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/324564/sharedfilelistd-and-distnoted-hog-cpu
- https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/285945/what-are-the-sharingd-and-sharedfilelistd-processes
2019-02-19
macOS: most of my keyboard shortcuts did not work temporarily – restarting Mission Control did the job
- http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/23/restart-mission-control-in-os-x-lion/
Worked for me on High Sierra, long after Lion.
```
$ killall Dock
```
2019-01-09
gnome-terminal on macOS, fink, D-Bus, …

I wanted to install a terminal (“emulation”) with screen splitting, and I am going to try this one:

D-Bus starts a system and session bus on your system by default,
or a lot of stuff would break. If you don’t want it to do that,
touch the file ‘/sw/etc/dbus-1/disable-dbus’. Be warned that many
Gnome (and other) packages will fail without D-Bus.

If you want to disable the system bus, you can run:

/sw/bin/daemonic disable dbus

2018-07-17