Questions tagged [services]
OS X Services allow sharing data and capabilities across applications. They are invoked by the user either through the active application menu's "Services" submenu or via keyboard shortcuts, typically to act on the data selected in the currently active application.
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What are the hostnames that Apple products contact for location services?
I need to give location access to some apps on macOS and iOS so they can scan wireless networks, that's a thing now. I do not want system services or other apps to make location queries to Apple's ...
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Automator Quick Action to duplicate "Copy Link" in the service menu?
I open www.themoviedb.org and search for a movie. The webpage has a tab called "Media" that contains thumbnail links to cover art images. If I click a thumbnail it opens the target file in ...
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What is the proper way to stop and restart a service that is a "bundled daemon"?
There are some recent apps, e.g., Cisco Secure Client / AnyConnect VPN service, where the service cannot be stopped/started using the LaunchControl.app.
For more control over what's running on the ...
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Disabling services (daemons, agents) with launchctl
I want to get rid of some system services completely.
I turned off sip with csrutil disable.
Then following command
sudo launchctl disable com.apple.cloudphotod
Gave me an unexpected answer:
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How can I use launchctl to send a signal to a service?
As you can already see in the text below and screenshot of the terminal, whenever I try to send a signal to a service I have given Not privileged to signal service. and Could not kickstart service &...
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What is "Open and Save Panel service"?
I put my computer to sleep and everything was normal, but when I woke it up again, the CPU and fans started to run at 100 %. This is what I saw in Activity Monitor:
What is this and why does it use ...
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How to debug Services issues
I am trying to add a ⌘ Command T shortcut for opening a terminal session in a given directory on macOS but for some reason after I put the shortcut in Keyboard Shortcut and then Service. When I press ...
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How to Remove Unnecessary Services from Folder Menu in macOS Sonoma?
After updating to macOS Sonoma, my folder context menu is cluttered with many services I don't use.
How can I remove these unnecessary services?
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Services: make pop-up containing selected text as part of URI
I’d like to create a lookup for words/phrases not available in "Look-up" or "Translate" (Greek, for example).
This requires making the selected text part of the URI. But it seems ...
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How to stop sharingd, unsolicited, acceptance window from spawning and disappearing instantly every time the computer starts?
I have been living with this for a long time, but now (hope with your help) I am committed to solve it because it doesn't look quite normal.
Why this window of this sharingd process, shows up at boot ...
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Leave SSH daemon running permanently
I, for some reason, cannot seem to find a google search which actually answers this question. I have a mac, and I would like to have the ssh daemon running in the background at all times, so I can ssh ...
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Can the Services menu be edited to have submenus by editing a plist (without Automator)?
I can edit a binary plist with Xcode or convert it to XML and edit that as text. Never used Automator and don't want to bother until such time as I cannot accomplish a goal with a tool I already know....
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Create a shortcut for an item on services menu in Ventura
I installed a translation app that does better translations than Apple’s built-in translator or translate.google.com. It added an option to the global services menu to translate selected text. Since ...
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TextEdit’s "Orientation Layout"
Just discovered a very nice feature of Services on the context menu. In TextEdit, selecting Orientation Layout→Vertical rotates the text and characters 90° clockwise, keeping the window geometry the ...
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Shortcut to translate selected text
any hint on how to create a keyboard shortcut to translate a selected text in Safari (or, even better, in any app?)
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