I wanted to write this article to remind both myself and people in similar situations about the necessary configuration changes to use HiDPI-Mode (= scaled resolutions) with an LG Ultrawide monitor on a 2019 MacBook Pro 16″ (Intel) on macOS Ventura. tl;dr: How to make it work Download the “OnScreen Control” software from here and install it. After a reboot, download BetterDisplay, install it and reboot again. Click on the BetterDisplay try icon, select “Settings”, then “Displays”, then your ...
As a regular user of Visual Studio Code (VSCode) on macOS, you may be wondering why opening VSCode from the terminal does not work as expected: “zsh: command not found: code” means that the shell (in my case zsh, in your case maybe bash) is not able to find the code executable. This might confuse you if VSCode is already installed on your system. There are two solutions to this problem. Plan A: You can execute the following command: ln ...
In this article, I will demonstrate how to install Java OpenJDK 15 on macOS Big Sur in 2021. Update: I have created a video tutorial on how to install OpenJDK on macOS Big Sur: If you prefer written instructions, just keep reading: Download and Install OpenJDK 15 Download the .tar.gz version of OpenJDK 15 from jdk.java.net/15/ and move the file to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ on your mac. Then, extract it and delete the archive: sudo mv openjdk-15.0.1_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ sudo tar ...
In this article, I will demonstrate how to install Java OpenJDK 15 on macOS Catalina in 2020. Download and Install OpenJDK 15 Download the .tar.gz version of OpenJDK 15 from jdk.java.net/15/ and move the file to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ on your mac. Then, extract it and delete the archive: sudo mv openjdk-15_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ sudo tar -xzf openjdk-15_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz sudo rm openjdk-15_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz ...
Stop repeating yourself. Emails and messages in general often consist of repeated content blocks that never change. Greetings and signatures are perfect examples: some people even try to eliminate such “noise” from messages (for example, the “nohello”-movement). While it is unrealistic that such changes to the human interaction protocol will ever be universally accepted, there is something else a productivity-minded person can do in order to lose less time each day typing the same phrases over and over again. Outlook ...