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I got a MacBook Pro 15˝ built in 2015 (MacBookPro11,4). In order to calibrate the built-in monitor, I have to identify it and figure out if it uses a white LED-backlit for instance. I found two Terminal codes. ioreg -lw0 | grep \"EDID\" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6 This code...

Hi all, I'm having a strange issue with Terminal. I have to navigate to a folder which is on my Desktop: - at command prompt I type cd Desktop and all good, I navigate to the Desktop; - I type cd folderName and I get "No such file or directory". The folder is clearly on my Desktop and if I...

Hi, I'm currently trying to repair my External HD using Terminal as the "First Aid" option is greyed out in Disk Util (See Image Below) without losing any data on the drive itself. Whenever I try to use the "repairvolume" command it comes back at me with this: > diskutil repairvolume...

Hello, sometimes I have problems with my touchbar, right now my volume and brightness control do not work. Sometimes it is something else, you know what I'm talking about if you have one of the new Macbook Pros. I know that there is the useful Terminal command `killall dock` which restarts the...

On osx Sierra apple added a new feature that is when you move a window close to another it will stick the edges together (sorry about my crappy English I don't know how to describe this but I think you get the idea), which is so annoying since you cant adjust the windows location until you drag...

Today I have released Current Directory Window for Terminal for macOS. This app is currently free for Black Friday for everyone. App description and screenshots below. App Description: Current Directory Window for Terminal allows you to open a new Terminal window from Finder with the current...

If you guys are using git for your version control, there's an awesome terminal add-on for it (for free): https://www.npmjs.com/package/git-aware-terminal The link has a gif showing it in action which I embedded below.

Please help! I am having trouble with my Terminal, it keeps opening. If I Quit out of it, it will be open in another 30 seconds. I have done Malware Checks, talked with the Apple people and they told me to do a PRAM reset which has been done. Nothing seems to be working and it is very worrying...

Not sure where to post this but I've come across something odd on my end in the past week. I can't SSH out to another computer any more, but when I go to another station and do it from there, it does work. I keep getting "port 22 connection refused". I ran nmap localhost and port 22 isn't open...

Hi, first time poster after many years of reading.... I am trying to come up with a way to safely backup my Time Machine backup volumes offsite and I chose to try ARQ which uses s3 Glacier as its storage which is pretty cheap compared to other solutions which seem to offer a host of caveats...

It seems that in El Capitan, Apple has linked together the options "Increase contrast" and "Reduce transparency" in the "Display" pane of the "Accessibility" prefs pane. While you can enable "Reduce transparency" by itself, you cannot enable "Increase contrast" by itself. As some of you may...

For those of you who desire a better looking Dock -- other than Apple's current abomination, that is -- and who want to do it "naturally" without relying upon any third party apps or haxies -- such as cDock -- you might consider doing the following: 1. Discover what your machine's default...

For those of you who desire a better looking Dock -- other than Apple's current abomination, that is -- and who want to do it "naturally" without relying upon any third party apps or haxies -- such as cDock -- you might consider doing the following: 1. Discover what your machine's default...

OOPS . . . That was supposed to say "El Capitan Dock". :) 1. Launch the Terminal app from the /Applications/Utilities folder. 2. Type the following in the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect suck; killall Dock 3. Hit your "return" key. 4. If it asks you for your password --...

This is nothing new, but maybe some of you haven't seen it before. 1. Launch the Terminal app from the /Applications/Utilities folder. 2. Type the following in the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect suck; killall Dock 3. Hit your "return" key. 4. If it asks you for your...

The following works in El Capitan, so I assume it will work in Sierra as well. To add a message to your logon screen, do the following: 1. Launch Terminal app from the /Applications/Utilities folder. 2. Type the following in the Terminal: sudo defaults write...

Here is a neat little Terminal trick. To add a message to your logon screen, do the following: 1. Launch Terminal app from the /Applications/Utilities folder. 2. Type the following in the Terminal: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "Hey Bill . . ...

Hi, Was wondering if it is possible to disable/enable Siri from terminal command.

Hello, just updated from El Capitan to Sierra and the old shortcuts for switching between tabs in terminal don't work anymore. On El Capitan i jumped between them forward: cmd + ä backward: cmd + ö Now on Sierra i have to press "shift + cmd + arrow keys" - to press all of these...

Hi. Is there an easy terminal command to place applications in the users login items specifically for 10.10/10.11 I did have a post on this yesterday but it was mis-understood, all I need to know ia if there is an easy terminal command to place apps in the login items. I'm not great with...