Unanswered Questions
2,793 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Internet Sharing on Lion breaks my routing table
When in the office, I'm connected to a 192.168.1.0/24 network. When Internet Sharing is off, the first entry of netstat -nr is
default 192.168.1.254 UGSc 10 62 en0
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Text in window in macOS Catalina is blurry after sleep
After I updated my MacBook Pro to Catalina, every time I close the lid for a while some windows will be blurry.
Here is an example:
The left window was opened before sleep and now it is blurry.
The ...
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Why is iTerm2 is super slow on macOS BigSur?
I am super bummed out: My iTerm2 commands that were previously fast before Big Sur now crawl. Worse, when opening a new terminal it can take up to 50 seconds for the shell prompt to return.
What is ...
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How to stop minimized Chrome windows opening automatically in Mac OS
I often leave a Chrome window minimized in the Dock (with something I want to read/do later, and don't want to find again, for example). In the meantime, though, I'll often click on links in emails, ...
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Is Xfce supposed to run slowly on Virtualbox?
I'm having problems getting Xfce systems on VirtualBox to run smoothly. What I mean by slow is that moving or resizing windows looks very "laggy" (basically just windows jumping from one ...
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Huge process called "swift" in the activity monitor, appears after installing Xcode 11.0
After installing Xcode 11.0, a strange processes keep showing up in the activity monitor, causing the system to freeze sometimes, and crash (shutdown) other times, these processes are called "swift", ...
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Change compile flags for Homebrew
We're building a large C++ application on OS X Yosemite 10.10. This application relies on a number of third-party libraries which we install using Homebrew prior to building our application. Our ...
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How do I stop command-f from sharing state across applications on Mac OS X (10.8.2)?
If I have a find bar (command-f) open in two applications, and I change the text in one, the text in the other changes to match as soon as I tab over to the second application. Is there a way to turn ...
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Linux compatibility layer for Mac OS X
I have a closed-source piece of Linux software written in a combination of Java and C. The application installs on my Mac (it uses InstallAnywhere), however, it isn't intended to run on a Mac.
The ...
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How can I disable macOS Finder’s tree view from remembering open leafs
When I open macOS Finder an for e.g. open in the tree view the folder Documents the tree view automatically opens all subfolders I opened the last time when I visited that folder. This is annoying as ...
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Command–Grave accent (⌘`) not switching between Safari 17 windows on mac OS Sonoma
On Safari 17 (mac OS Sonoma) the Command–Grave accent (⌘+`) is not switching between Safari windows. It works fine on every other app, except for Safari. I've tested on two different Macs and I see ...
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Why will my trackpad and keyboard not work with dual booted Kali Linux on Mac?
Due to my current circumstances, I need to dual boot Kali Linux on my MacBook Pro (2018). I managed to burn the image onto an external flash drive and load to the desktop in the Kali OS.
My problem ...
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Google drive file stream has encountered and has stopped OSX
credits goes to github user bfleischer for the solution
Just wanted to share an answer to a solution.
So recently i fresh installed a new OSX on my mac and encountered this problem which the drive ...
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How to show dock using keyboard in Full screen mode?
I know the normal way is to move mouse to the bottom of screen. But this method is slow, sometimes not responsive (have to drag a few times before the dock shows up).
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Is there a keyboard ...
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fsck_exfat: Could not update main boot region: Bad file descriptor - Mac OS X - external hard drive
My external hard drive (seagate barracuda with good SMART status insidev erbatim 4TB store 'n' go) has 3 main partitions:
1) ntfs
2) hfs+ for time machine backup
3) exfat to transfer files between ...
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