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Two-finger click on touch pad is right-click. Or ctrl+touch pad or ctrl+mouse click.
To have switching with alt+tab and window previews, install brew install --cask alt-tab. You may need to change in settings alt+tab to Show windows from applications: All apps. I also like to hide all app windows (cmd+h) or minimize one app window (cmd+m) and have AltTab do now show them. For that change in AltTab > Settings > Controls > Show minimized windows: Hide, Show hidden windows: Hide. Sometimes AltTab does now show preview for some window. In that case reopen AltTab.
To have fast switching between full screen windows: don't full screen and just auto hide top bar instead: System Settings > Control Center > Automatically hide and show the menu bar: Always. Also System Settings > Wallpaper > Colors: black or set image with black at the top. You may also auto hide dock. One downside if you move mouse to top bar and click to fast, you will show desktop instead. There is some possibility for fast switching with full screen windows with https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai but is hacky.
Install https://brew.sh. Disable quarantine with export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS=--no-quarantine in ~/.zshrc link. To upgrade packages without asking for root password many times brew-upgrade. To list brew packages brew-packages.
Finder (Mac OS file explorer):


enter to rename
cmd+up to go parent dir
cmd+down to go to child dir
cmd+c copies. cmd+v pastes copy. To cut and paste, copy first but paste with option+cmd+v
cmd+z to undo operation like delete, rename etc. cmd+shift+z to redo operation.
Enable status bar. Then you will be able to right-click on bread crumb and choose Services > New Ghostty tab here
To toggle hidden files cmd+shift+, or command defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES.
You cannot close Finder (be default). Only close windows with cmd+w.
To set association of some file extension with some program: right-click file > Get Info > Open with: select app > Change all....
To search current folder always: Settings > Advanced > When performing a search: Search the Current Folder
Show file extensions: Settings > Advanced > Show all file extensions
To delete file cmd+backspace
To add Bin to sidebar ctrl+cmd+t or File > Add to Sidebar. Then you can cmd+click link in sidebar to open in new tab. Helps when emptying Bin and Finder tab is closed automatically.
To open new tab cmd+tab
To set location cmd+shift+g
To preview file, press space
To select multiple files one-by-one: cmd+click. To select from-to: shift+click but does not work in Icon view - drag with mouse then.


To open multiple images in full screen like slideshow in Preview app: select multiple images in Finder with with cmd or shift. Then press cmd+down. Sometimes it will open them in multiple windows :(. In that case just retry.
Text cursor shortcut for: home ctrl+a, end ctrl+e. Like in Emacs. End of file cmd+down. Beginning of file cmd+up.
To maximize window: some apps like Google Chrome support maximizing by double-clicking title bar. If not, double-click corner with option key. Or install brew install --cask rectangle and ctrl+opt+enter.
For calendar in menu bar like in Windows, install https://github.com/pakerwreah/Calendr. The best menu bar calendar app I have found, but recently it closes and I need to reopen it manually.
For transient prompt https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/oh-my-posh and https://github.com/rofrol/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/oh-my-posh/themes/rofrol.omp.json.
To toggle internal display when external connected with shortcut: install https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/betterdisplay (paid app). Then in Keyboard > Keyboard shorcuts > Display connection > Toggle built-in display: shift+cmd+7. Alternatively you can brew install --cask monitorcontrol and decrease brightness with slider which appear after clicking monitor control icon.
Menu bar: after installing brew install --cask stats, you may wish to decrease spacing between widgets with https://sindresorhus.com/menu-bar-spacing. More https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/406316/can-the-spacing-of-menu-bar-apps-be-modified-in-macos-big-sur-and-later. To rearrange items in menu bar, use cmd+mouse drag.
To add action to finder in Services, for example: https://github.com/rofrol/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/subtitles_encoding_and_line_ending.sh
For advanced shortcuts: brew install --cask karabiner-elements. For example https://github.com/rofrol/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/karabiner/karabiner.json#L334
Similar to WinDirStat brew install --cask disk-inventory-x or brew install --cask qdirstat.
Extract archives like rar, 7z brew install --cask the-unarchiver.
Torrents brew install --cask qbittorrent.
For playing movies brew install --cask iina. IINA, unlike mpv, allows displaying two subtitles at the same time. Primary subtitles at the bottom, secondary at the top. IINA, also unlike MPV, show thumbnails when you hover on scrollbar. If IINA crashes, you may want to install https://nightly.link/mpv-player/mpv/workflows/build/master. If macos blocks mpv, go to point 34.
For subtitles https://qnapi.github.io/. Some subtitle files may have extension txt but inside it is srt. So just change extension to srt. Sometimes file may have txt extension but IINA cannot open it. Try to disabling subtitles post-processing in qnapi settings for that file. Or the file can have wrong encoding, file format. Fix it with subtitles_encoding_and_line_ending.sh from above. You may need to sync subtitles to video with brew install alass like alass-cli en.srt pl.srt out.srt. If alass does not alight subtitles correctly, check if there is some line at the beggining in en.srt that is not in pl.srt, and vice-versa. You may remove such line with Jubler: brew install --cask jubler. If English subtitles are embedded in mkv file: install brew install mkvtoolnix. Then mkvinfo *.mkv | less and mkvextract tracks *.mkv 3:en.srt. If mkvinfo shows for subtitles: Codec ID: S_HDMV/PGS, change extension to sup and convert to srt with https://pgs-to-srt.com/. If it shows S_VOBSUB: mkvextract tracks file.mkv 3:track3 will produce track3.idx and track3.sub. Convert to srt with https://subtitletools.com or https://gotranscript.com/subtitle-converter. To translate srt subtitles to another language use https://translatesubtitles.co/. To convert from sub to srt subtitles: ffmpeg -i input.sub output.srt. You may first install it brew install ffmpeg. Sometimes character encoding for polish characters is broken, but can be fixed with https://github.com/rofrol/fix_polish_characters.
To merge pdf files into one: select them in Finder, right-click and Quick Actions > Create PDF. To extract pages, install brew install qpdf and then qpdf --empty --pages infile.pdf 1-5 -- outfile.pdf link.
Create folder with selected files in Finder: right-click and New Folder with Selection.
Deleting app by dragging it to Bin or cmd+backspace. Or better use brew uninstall.
zsh: to set environment variable for some GUI app like Emacs.app, you need to put it in ~/.zshrc, not ~/.zprofile.
To install older driver, i.e. for hp printer, use brew install --cask pacifist. Example https://github.com/kisswiki/kisswiki/blob/master/src/os/macos/printer_hp_laserjet_p1102.md
To show all app icons: pinch with 4 fingers on touchpad. You can also add shortcut for this to cmd+space in Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shorcuts... > Launchpad & Dock > Show Launchpad and disable cmd+space for Spotlight in Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shorcuts... > Spotlight. That way you can disable completely spotlight indexing service https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/265749/what-is-spotlight-indexing-and-should-i-turn-it-off.
To make screenshot: whole screen cmd+shift+3, selected rectangle cmd+shift+4, UI cmd+shit+5. To change screenshots location cmd+shift+5 > Options > Select directory.
If Mac OS prevents you opening downloaded app, try right-click > Open.
For terminal, install brew install --cask ghostty. It allows to have different font-size per split. To enter polish characters like ł with alt+l, in Ghostty config macos-option-as-alt = left. Also use Karabiner to switch right cmd with right option for entering polish characters like on Windows.
To have cmd+space search only for apps: Macos > System Settings > Spotlight > Search results > check only Applications.
Games: brew install --cask steam, brew install --cask porting-kit, brew install --cask heroic. https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover. https://git.ryujinx.app/ryubing/ryujinx. https://github.com/Kegworks-App/Kegworks.
Lightweight docker desktop alternative brew install --cask orbstack (paid).
Show all windows: swipe up with 3 fingers. Or ctrl+up. To show only single app windows: ctrl+down. You can change it in Settings > Desktop and Dock > Shorctus or Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shorcuts... > Mission Control.
To disable hot corners go to Settings > Desktop and Dock > Hot Corners.
If you cannot open some file, like rar, you need to run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <file>. Also you can make quick action with:
Automator > Quick Action > Workflow receives current: files or folders, in: Finder.app, on the left search for "Run Shell Script" and drag-and-drop it to the right. Pass input: as arguments. Content of script: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "$@". Save is as unquarantine. Then Finder > right-click on file > Quick Actions > unquarantine. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1kbvsse/cant_open_rar_files_after_update_to_1541/ Instead of Quick Action, you may go to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Scroll down to Security > enable blocked app
System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Reduce transparency
Firefox and yt-dlp integration: install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-application/. Then install node.js. Then npm install --global native-client. In External Application Button options, add new application. Executable Name: /Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS/ghostty. Arguments: -e /opt/homebrew/bin/yt-dlp --ffmpeg-location /opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg "[HREF]"
Record screen with OBS brew install --cask obs. Show keys with KeyCastr brew install --cask keycastr link
terminal session history brew install atuin.
Color picker brew install --cask pika. Pika > Settings > Color Format > sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for correct colors.


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