mac-mouse-fix VS macmediakeyforwarder

The Github repo[0] is listed. Could open an issue for describing how it works.

[0] https://github.com/noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix

Mac Mouse Fix

Although almost everything on macOS is just much more polished and higher quality, some things are just missing, if you're used to Windows. Get the fabulous AltTab, because the macOS window switcher is just garbage. Rectangle is also a must, because you will miss Windows AeroSnap feature. Since you will be using a laptop instead of a desktop, I probably don't need to recommend Mac Mouse Fix and Karabiner.

You can also try MMF!

The MMF2 readme links to the releases page but whatever. Just get the zip from here: https://github.com/noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix/releases/tag/2.2.0 or click the big button here: https://mousefix.org/

Used it a few years ago but nowadays I prefer Mac Mouse Fix which is more functional and frequently updated.

if you need more buttons to be mappable, mac mouse fix (https://github.com/noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix) is free and does what sensible buttons does but with keyboard buttons mappable too

If I may present an alternative to Mos: Mac Mouse Fix accomplishes the same thing, is just as simple and lightweight but a little less sketchy in appearance. Here’s the Git as well.

I don't know the exact issues but might be related to the issues why I left Apple : I was developing a very successful little tool for MacOS ( https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder ) which listened for keypresses. From 2016 to 2019 it became harder and harder to install it because apple added more and more restrictions to apps like this. By 2019, you had to enable the application explicitly to listen for events at least in three places deep down in the system preferences, click accept in various popups and if you stuck somewhere then nobody could tell why it wasn't working. So I had a very expensive laptop and the OS didn't let me use it freely. So I just switched to freebsd and linux, I don't have fancy productivity apps like photoshop and final cut but with open source tools and with my own desktop applications I created the best looking/most usable desktop experience MacOS will never have. ( https://swayos.github.io/ )

I like this app for fixing it. https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder

Here you go, I'm on an M1 MacBook Air 2020 and this works perfectly for me. It's called "Mac Media Key Forwarder"

Media Key Forwarder: lets you pause iTunes/Apple Music/Spotify when you hit the pause button. Apple, for unknown insane reasons, changed the pause button to pause front-loaded media instead of background music when I actually want to pause background music because I now want to watch something.

There needs to be a way to hard-lock F8 to only operate Apple Music. High Sierra Media Key Enabler, later Mac Media Key Forwarder, used to do this. The GitHub suggest using Bearded Spice. I had been using that last year but it seems it's no longer working and the last update was in 2017.

Media Key Forwarder (discontinued) , opens Spotify instead of iTunes when using media keys https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder

I use MacMediaKeyForwarder (which is discontinued but works well) for sending media key presses from my Logitech Keyboard to Spotify. Alfred (free version) is a better Spotlight. For finding large files and cleaning up my disk I use GrandPerspective.

This is quite obscure, but macmediakeyforwarder is pretty essential for me. Since High Sierra I think, macOS has made it so the media key plays/pauses the last audio source you were using - including web media such as YouTube. I only ever want it to control Spotify, which is what this app does. I haven’t looked at the GitHub pages in ages and just noticed it’s no longer maintained, and the developer suggests using beardedspice as an alternative.