macmediakeyforwarder
Media Key Forwarder for iTunes and Spotify (by milgra)
MacGesture
Global mouse gestures for macOS (by MacGesture)
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1,229 | 797 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
over 1 year ago | 11 months ago | |
Objective-C | Objective-C | |
The Unlicense | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
macmediakeyforwarder
Posts with mentions or reviews of macmediakeyforwarder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-19.
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Keyboard won't control Music app if Youtube in Safari is open
Found this article which suggests Mac Media Key Forwarder or BeardedSpice.
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Does anyone know if this key pauses sound coming from all open app? Because for me, it only mutes the focused app but ignores Spotify running in the background. Is this the intended behavior?
Try this. It works great to tie that key to Apple music. Says it works for Spotify too.
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Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From macOS To Raspberry Linux
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/ )
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Make play/pause button default to music player?
Hello! Try Mac Media Key Forwarder I use it for the exact same reason.
- How do I stop headphone bluetooth controls starting / stopping media in Chrome / Safari and force them to only work with Apple Music / Spotify?
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Discussion Thread
I like this app for fixing it. https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder
- Is there an app to explicitly set, which app uses the play pause buttons on the keyboard?
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Lock keyboard media keys to Apple Music, is there an app for this?
Here you go, I'm on an M1 MacBook Air 2020 and this works perfectly for me. It's called "Mac Media Key Forwarder"
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Recommendation for macOS app that will increase the experience on macOS ?
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.
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How to keep media keys fixed to the Music app with macOS Monterey?
I dislike the way how the media keys work on macOS by default. I used to use this app (https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder) with previous versions of macOS, but it's no longer supported and its recommended replacement 'Bearded Spice' doesn't work on my computer. Is there another way to make those media keys work just for the music app?
MacGesture
Posts with mentions or reviews of MacGesture.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-31.
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Mac switching desktops with Kensington Expert Mouse
I just found this opensource app MacGesture
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Long time iOS user, first time trying a Mac! Any tips and tricks/must know about?
MacGesture for mouses as well—pretty convenient for browsing the web, for instance; you can set gestures for going forward/backward, closing a tab, opening a tab, etc.
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Lesser Known App Recommendations
MacGestures — mouse gestures, in Safari and system-wide.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing macmediakeyforwarder and MacGesture you can also consider the following projects:
Fluor - A handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application.
alfred-calculate-anything - Alfred Workflow to calculate anything with natural language
beardedspice - Mac Media Keys for the Masses
CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
Boop - A scriptable scratchpad for developers. In slow yet steady progress.
Mousecape - Cursor Manager for OSX
ImageOptim - GUI image optimizer for Mac
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
numi - Beautiful calculator app for macOS
jrnlsync-sh - Write jrnl.sh entries on iOS, using your favourite writing app and Siri Shortcuts. Then sync your journal with a bash script. Very simple, easy to install and use, and works well.
macmediakeyforwarder vs Fluor
MacGesture vs alfred-calculate-anything
macmediakeyforwarder vs beardedspice
MacGesture vs CotEditor
macmediakeyforwarder vs alfred-calculate-anything
MacGesture vs Boop
macmediakeyforwarder vs Mousecape
MacGesture vs ImageOptim
macmediakeyforwarder vs alt-tab-macos
MacGesture vs Mousecape
macmediakeyforwarder vs numi
MacGesture vs jrnlsync-sh