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Not complicated at all, it just requires an open mindset. Some tips: Customise it to your liking in the keyboard pref pane. You can press-and-drag on volume

by lloeki 7y ago

Not complicated at all, it just requires an open mindset. Some tips: Customise it to your liking in the keyboard pref pane. You can press-and-drag on volume and brightness buttons of the collapsed control strip. No need to tap then slide. You can create services (now Quick Action) in Automator and they show up with the Show Quick Actions setting set. Since services can be contextual (input+app) you can get creative and do some whacky stuff in there. I have contextless Safari and Terminal there to pop up new windows whatever the focused app is.

mgkimsal 7y ago
What I CAN NOT do, however, is move the 'ESC' key (or any, really) all the way to the left. There's always a 'Touch ID'-size spacer on the left of the Touch Bar.
- a_c_s 7y ago
  That spacer still activates the 'ESC' key
  - lloeki 7y ago
    Indeed the ESC button is much wider than it appears to be.
  - Crontab 7y ago
    That's correct. I am currently considering upgrading from my 13" 2013 Macbook Air to a 15" 2019 Macbook Pro (I want it for the IPS/bigger display) and I noticed this while I was testing it at Bestbuy. Personally, if I make the purchase, I will probably just remap the Caps Lock key to ESC - assuming I can remove ESC from the Touch Bar. The one thing I didn't care for is that the Touch Bar display can time out. I would personally prefer that it stay on - or at least have the option of it staying on.
    - lloeki 7y ago
      Did a quick test, seems like it times out after 2min of system idle time, unrelated to display timeout (caffeinate -d doesn't prevent it) or actual idle system state (caffeinated -I doesn't either), and even on AC power (to prevent OLED burn in?) The timeout implementation could definitely be improved. In 6 months I've hat that computer I've never had it be a problem or even found it annoying in any way though.
  - mgkimsal 7y ago
    it sort of does. pressing in the 'middle' of the space, yeah, but not tapping the edge, like I used to do with the physical key.

by lloeki 7y ago

mgkimsal 7y ago

What I CAN NOT do, however, is move the 'ESC' key (or any, really) all the way to the left. There's always a 'Touch ID'-size spacer on the left of the Touch Bar.

a_c_s 7y ago
That spacer still activates the 'ESC' key
- lloeki 7y ago
  Indeed the ESC button is much wider than it appears to be.
- Crontab 7y ago
  That's correct. I am currently considering upgrading from my 13" 2013 Macbook Air to a 15" 2019 Macbook Pro (I want it for the IPS/bigger display) and I noticed this while I was testing it at Bestbuy. Personally, if I make the purchase, I will probably just remap the Caps Lock key to ESC - assuming I can remove ESC from the Touch Bar. The one thing I didn't care for is that the Touch Bar display can time out. I would personally prefer that it stay on - or at least have the option of it staying on.
  - lloeki 7y ago
    Did a quick test, seems like it times out after 2min of system idle time, unrelated to display timeout (caffeinate -d doesn't prevent it) or actual idle system state (caffeinated -I doesn't either), and even on AC power (to prevent OLED burn in?) The timeout implementation could definitely be improved. In 6 months I've hat that computer I've never had it be a problem or even found it annoying in any way though.
- mgkimsal 7y ago
  it sort of does. pressing in the 'middle' of the space, yeah, but not tapping the edge, like I used to do with the physical key.