Showing posts with label mac os x. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mac os x. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2015

MacBook Finnish keyboard reference

Characters

Dollar sign ($) = Alt + 4
Pipe (|) = Alt + 7
Tilde (~) = Alt + ^
Backslash (\) = Shift + Alt + 7

Open square bracket ([) = Alt + 8
Closed square bracket (]) = Alt + 9
Open curly bracket ({) = Shift + Alt + 8
Closed curly bracket (}) = Shift + Alt + 9

Delete = Fn + Backspace

Line

Start of line = Cmd + Left
End of line = Cmd + Right

Word left = Alt + Left
Word right = Alt + Right

Document

Start of document = Cmd + Up
End of document = Cmd + Down

Page up = Fn + Up
Page down = Fn + Down

Print screen

Print screen = Cmd + Shift + 3
Print screen area = Cmd + Shift + 4 (select area to capture)
Print window = Cmd + Shift + 4 and then press Space (select window to capture)

Finder

Delete file = Cmd + Backspace

Friday, March 11, 2011

How to run Mac OS X application at system startup

1. Create a text file with .plist extension (for example, com.myname.myapplication.plist) with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.myname.myapplication</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Applications/My Application.app/Contents/MacOS/my_application</string>  
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

2. Replace strings in bold with your application id (can be any unique string) and path to your application executable.

3. Put it to /Library/LaunchAgents directory:

sudo cp com.myname.myapplication.plist /Library/LaunchAgents

4. Change file permissions to 644:

sudo chmod 644 com.myname.myapplication.plist

More information:
  • Introduction to System Startup Programming Topics
  • Technical Note TN2083: Daemons and Agents
  • launchd.plist(5) Mac OS X Manual Page
  • launchctl(1) Mac OS X Manual Page
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2011

    How to unpack .PKG and .MPKG files

    Use the perfect freeware and open source unpkg unarchiver utility from timdoug.

    You can find it here:
    http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/