Terminal scroll up issue
When you scroll up in your terminal (in an ssh session), you don’t see your session’s output but rather, old output, e.g. you can only see output as far back as your terminal’s window height. Run: tput rmcup
Category Archives : Mac
oh-my-zsh slow
DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY=”true” in .zshrc
Open terminal with custom profile, create link and add to dock (mac)
This is useful in case you often use mac terminal with different (color) profiles, e.g. one for ssh to another machine, one for local. with normal Terminal on mac, choose profile, mess with colors or what not. In menu: Shell -> Export Settings. This saves a .terminal file for you to execute Since mac’s dock […]
mac media keys to control vlc player
VLC preference -> interface -> play back control -> control playback with media keys. also marked continued playback as always. This works even for touch bar.
could not connect to $SSH_AUTH_SOCK: dial unix /tmp/ssh-FUk5nsIlP1qb/agent.6776: connect: no such file or directory
$ eval $(ssh-agent -s)
network doesn’t work on mac
If safari (and other apps like adium) don’t work, but chrome still works, try: $ sudo launchctl stop com.apple.networkd $ sudo launchctl start com.apple.networkd
mac: can connect to internet with chrome, chromium, firefox. cannot with safari, skype
sudo killall -9 networkd
Mac hosed from installing new mac os
New mac os available. You try to install but you run out of space. It will fail and your mac will be hosed. You could press command + R while booting and get into OS Utilities, but it doesn’t allow you to free up space and delete files individually. Solution: boot into live usb […]
Stream to LG smart tv from mac
Install https://plex.tv/downloads Run it, add movies/library of movies On LG tv, go to input list. you should see plex media server. Click it, find your movie, enjoy. For more info, see:
Remote suggested url from chrome’s bar as you type
On mac: Fn + Shift + Del. else: Shift + Del once you highlight (up/down arrow keys) the suggestion.