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Platypus
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Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
Something for which I wish there was a windows variant...
Embedding a script into a small tray icon/menubar app can be extremely powerfull even with its low complexity.
[1]: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus
- Sveinbjornt/Platypus: Create native Mac applications from command line scripts
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Application-Specific Terminals
> Which apps do you use actually it for?
neovim, mutt, tig, weechat
> That's what aliases are for (or you could rename the binary?)!
Unfortunately, it's not that simple on macOS for app bundles. The human readable name of the app bundle really doesn't matter that much to the operating system -- it's the contents of Info.plist that matter. In order to have a separate app that can be Cmd+Tab'd to, you have to have a separate app bundle, separate app bundle identifier, etc. There's really not a way around it on macOS that I've seen.
(And to be clear, aliases do work on the command line. I'm talking specifically about GUI apps - which is my primary method of separating my different activities. Terminal emulator tabs are not good enough.)
This also doesn't solve the performance problems with any of the various GUI applications, nor does it solve my problem for other applications that I want to run.
> By the way, do you know the app https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus that can generate app bundles on a Mac?
I do! I tried this route first, but it falls apart when you start a GUI application from the script that you supply to platypus. If your script is e.g. `wezterm start`, it'll just start up another instance of a wezterm-branded GUI app in addition to the wrapper app that Platypus spits out.
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The Icelandic Saga Database
Random fact; this website is created and maintained by Sveinbjörn Þórðarson who also made Platypus (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus) and Sloth (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Sloth) — software that Mac nerds might be familiar with.
Sveinbjörn is a ball of energy that just radiates positives for human society.
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How to easily share a small CLI script with non-technical coworkers?
Not sure if I understood the question properly but I found this program for Macs the other day: Platypus. It will create a .app out of any scrap of code.
mySIMBL
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The History of Cover Flow
I also miss the icons for drives showing up in the finder window sidebar. Now, all drives' icons are ignored and replaced by generic, OS-assigned icons. Rather than having a visual cue of what to click on, one must read the name. Seems trivial, but it sucks and I hate it.
A couple projects tried to keep the sidebar icons alive using mySIMBL (1) and later MacForge (2) but they've sadly all been abandoned. (I think.) They never really worked all that well, requiring finder-rebooting and various shenanigans to get them to run (if memory serves.)
(1) https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL
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Is there a way to change the skin color on Safari 16 (16" MBP OS 12.6) from all white to something like before?
Not an easy fix but there might be a plugin for that in https://www.macenhance.com/macforge
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Projects for Old Versions of OS X
SIMBL lives on mostly thanks to w0lfschild, see: https://github.com/w0lfschild/MacForgeFramework. This repo hasn't been updated since 2018; I'm not entirely clear whether the most recent versions of MacForge is still based on SIMBL.
The SIMBL on my website uses an unmodified SIMBLAgent binary taken from an older version of w0lfchild's mySIMBL (https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL). However, I recompiled his SIMBL.osax with 32-bit support added back in, since I use a lot of 32-bit apps: https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/MacForgeFramework
Quick note that I don't really understand this code, I can just tell you that it works, at least on Mavericks.
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App that hides middle or left side of Mac menubar?
moreMenu plugin for the app MacForge (For macOS 10.12 & older it's called mySIMBL) let's you do exactly that.
What are some alternatives?
hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua
AfloatX - An alternative to Afloat that lives in the dock icon menu
Sloth - Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.
blueutil - CLI for bluetooth on OSX: power, discoverable state, list, inquire devices, connect, info, …
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
spaces-renamer - 💻 Ability to rename desktop spaces on macOS 10.10+ (NOT CURRENTLY WORKING ON 14.4)
SubEthaEdit - General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.
MacForge - 📦 Plugin, App, and Theme store which includes plugin injection for macOS
yubiswitch - OSX status bar application to enable/disable Yubikey Nano
CloverBootloader - Bootloader for macOS, Windows and Linux in UEFI and in legacy mode