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macOS 10.12 Sierra: All The Little Things!
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Which part of TinkerTool allows you to change the function of the green bottom back to maximize?
As I wrote, I am not 100% sure. I just think to remember seeing something to change the green button behaviour somewhere and have nothing else installed than TinkerTool, TinkerTool System and Onyx, what could be able to do that.
TinkerTool System is not free, but there is a demo mode with limitations and an evaluation mode where you can launch it 5 times without limitations. I have the paid version. Could also have been in there.
But I can't launch any of those three to look for it. I have no older OS installed at the moment.
Both developers don't provide betas because of safety reasons and at least for Onyx I know that a compatible version won't be available before the final OS has been released and tested very well.
Something nobody has mentioned yet:
You can't update in-place to macOS Sierra Developer Preview if you are currently running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. At least, you need to be running OS X Lion.
If this requirement makes its way to the final release, this can be troubling for those who are on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. They would have to purchase OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion from the Apple Online Store as a springboard for the update to macOS Sierra.
You can't update in-place to macOS Sierra Developer Preview if you are currently running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. At least, you need to be running OS X Lion.
If this requirement makes its way to the final release, this can be troubling for those who are on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. They would have to purchase OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion from the Apple Online Store as a springboard for the update to macOS Sierra.
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how many people are still running 10.6 that would upgrade?
I don't think you can expect Apple to continue to supporting OS X versions from 6-7 years ago. And if these users didn't get the urge to upgrade for 6 years now, what makes you think that they'd realistically want to at this stage?
Maybe they bought a second-handed Mac, where the owner never bothered to update and decided to update?
It's understandable that Apple may drop the in-place update migration script for Snow Leopard users, but perhaps at least give an option to download and install fresh?
If Apple limits the minimum system requirement of macOS Sierra's installer to 10.7 and above, people on Snow Leopard will have to download the installer on a second Mac and create a bootable USB to install, or, more disconcerting, resort to sketchy, illegal sources to get an update that they could have gotten for free legally.
I suspect that for those people the Mac App Store will show the option to install El Capitan. From there people can upgrade to Sierra. But to be fair: You can upgrade at all, which is not a given. Look at Windows XP-Users: Those couldn't even upgrade to Windows 7 directly, which is only two versions newer. Snow Leopard to El Capitan is 5 versions.
Can someone check if the volume beeps sound the same? Maybe record them? (Just hold shift while pressing volume up/down).
Also can someone check the versions of the following in the terminal:
emacs --version
php --version
httpd -v
ruby --version
bashb --version
git --version
openssl version
Also can someone check the versions of the following in the terminal:
emacs --version
php --version
httpd -v
ruby --version
bashb --version
git --version
openssl version
Can you please give me a test link that works for you.
Thanks
P.S. Never mind, just saw your later post:
Can someone please confirm whether you can open any link in a new tab and then press back button to close the tab and return to the original tab in Sierra or does this also only work for pinned tabs?
Thanks
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Easy workaround: change a PLIST (forgot which one) to make the OS reflect 10.7 instead of 10.6.8, then download the installer, run it, then change the PLIST back to 10.6.8, then continue with the installer. Should work that way.
emacs: 22.1.1
php: 5.5.34
httpd: Apache/2.4.20 (Unix)
ruby: 2.0.0p648
bash: 3.25
openssl: 0.9.8zh
Bashb doesn't seem to work here, just bash does. For git I've got to download additional stuff (don't want to waste my space at this point). Hope this helps.
Oh. Your. God. I almost broke my entire ecosystem by adding this to my keyboard shortcuts (before they removed the ability to use spaces as the trigger). It got stuck in an endless loop of sync and it took me two years to finally get rid of it. Now it is native!
Not sure if this installer links against 10.7-specific APIs. If that's the case, this trick wouldn't work.
Also, Snow Leopard's codesigning mechanism doesn't complain after changing Info.plist, but Mavericks and above does. In the future, a resign of the binary is also required.
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emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
php --version
PHP 5.5.34 (cli) (built: May 11 2016 08:58:52)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.20 (Unix)
Server built: May 11 2016 08:28:41
ruby --version
ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16 revision 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin16]
bashb --version
-bash: bashb: command not found
git --version
git version 1.8.5.2 (Apple Git-48)
openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016
I think they've got to know this and it will probably be a perk announcement at the next iPhone event.
We shall see I guess.
Can you control HomeKit devices via Siri on the Mac? This is not working for me.
They are intentionally doing this to up-sell their paid plans. If you want to use Documents & Desktop in Cloud and have no space available, you have to pay.
If you don't want to pay, disable the features and everything remains the same as always.
If enough of us open tickets maybe they'll change their minds??
I opened up a ticket with Apple Support, please do the same.
I'd suggest grabbing BetterSnapTool (https://www.boastr.net/bettersnaptool/). You can make window buttons do pretty much anything window related plus even quit the app. And of course the awesome windows snapping ability.
This still works out great in Sierra. I've had no issues whatsoever.