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How do you disable a monitor then? I have found the display options. As far as I am aware you have to use the console to disable a monitor and you have to giv

by pfisch 14y ago

How do you disable a monitor then? I have found the display options. As far as I am aware you have to use the console to disable a monitor and you have to give it a bunch of crazy commands. Some of the navigating between open programs stuff is good. Really nothing else I can think of is. Other parts are acceptable, but really the control panel is wanting(like with the monitors), file navigation and dev tools are bad, removing usb drives is annoying, I hate itunes for a variety of reasons. Media playback is about as bad as windows, however, vlc for mac is worse than windows, but I don't blame apple for that except for the fullscreen issues relating back to monitor control. I also find decompressing files to be annoying, but on windows that is 3rd party as well if you want something good. I haven't found anything on the mac that is as robust as 3rd party windows tools yet for decompression. There is more but just in general the gui is skin deep just like all the software apple makes.

grey-area 14y ago
On a laptop, close the laptop lid, or you can unplug the monitor, or some apps blank the second screen (games for example). Decompressing files you just double click them. Your requirements sound... unusual, so I'm not surprised you are not satisfied. The way you feel about Mac OS is not a universal truth or even a common experience, and your claims about a skin deep UI are off the mark - Apple has hisorically paid more attention to consistent and predictable ui than any other vendor.
- pfisch 14y ago
  Unplugging the monitor/closing the lid is the most ridiculous solution I have ever heard. Maybe I want to use the laptop keyboard, or the trackpad. This isn't even theoretical, I actually want to do this all the time. What if I have a bunch of rar files on a usb stick that I want to extract. They can't extract in place because of fat32 file size restrictions. This happened to me yesterday.
  - grey-area 14y ago
    If you need to extract some files and can't extract them in place, you can just copy them to someplace you do have space, of if this is really a common problem for you and you have huge files, change the built-in Archive Utility settings to set the destination (Archive Utility > Preferences). Not a big deal. Re disabling the monitor, the solution above works for me (for use with an external monitor, where I have a keyboard). Instead of ranting, you should try to explain what you actually want to do. Moving to a different OS requires adapting to the paradigms of that OS, there's no way around that, and Mac OS does not have this concept of leaving a monitor plugged in but calling it 'disabled'. Most people really don't miss it. What problem does leaving a monitor on give you? Pointing out minor glitches is easy, and there is no OS which has a monopoly on minor irritations.
    - pfisch 14y ago
      That is not true. Mac OS absolutely has the ability to do this, but it has to be done on the command line because the gui is shallow. Sometimes I would like to disable the monitor to improve performance, sometimes I just don't want windows to hide on the laptop screen. Sometimes I want to output video to my tv and not have the laptop screen on. It really doesn't matter. This is not a "glitch" because the feature exists. It is just a shallow UI.
danieldk 14y ago
removing usb drives is annoying Side note: Alfred makes ejecting really simple: http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:eject http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:eject
- pfisch 14y ago
  Why do I need to eject at all though?
  - spullara 14y ago
    Because on the Mac, writes to those devices are fast instead of slow. You'll find that on Mac, caching is enabled by default and on windows it is disabled by default. You can actually use a USB stick on a Mac almost like a normal disk. On windows, it is really too slow as write caching is disabled so you can pull it out at will when you aren't currently writing.

by pfisch 14y ago

grey-area 14y ago

On a laptop, close the laptop lid, or you can unplug the monitor, or some apps blank the second screen (games for example). Decompressing files you just double click them. Your requirements sound... unusual, so I'm not surprised you are not satisfied. The way you feel about Mac OS is not a universal truth or even a common experience, and your claims about a skin deep UI are off the mark - Apple has hisorically paid more attention to consistent and predictable ui than any other vendor.

pfisch 14y ago
Unplugging the monitor/closing the lid is the most ridiculous solution I have ever heard. Maybe I want to use the laptop keyboard, or the trackpad. This isn't even theoretical, I actually want to do this all the time. What if I have a bunch of rar files on a usb stick that I want to extract. They can't extract in place because of fat32 file size restrictions. This happened to me yesterday.
- grey-area 14y ago
  If you need to extract some files and can't extract them in place, you can just copy them to someplace you do have space, of if this is really a common problem for you and you have huge files, change the built-in Archive Utility settings to set the destination (Archive Utility > Preferences). Not a big deal. Re disabling the monitor, the solution above works for me (for use with an external monitor, where I have a keyboard). Instead of ranting, you should try to explain what you actually want to do. Moving to a different OS requires adapting to the paradigms of that OS, there's no way around that, and Mac OS does not have this concept of leaving a monitor plugged in but calling it 'disabled'. Most people really don't miss it. What problem does leaving a monitor on give you? Pointing out minor glitches is easy, and there is no OS which has a monopoly on minor irritations.
  - pfisch 14y ago
    That is not true. Mac OS absolutely has the ability to do this, but it has to be done on the command line because the gui is shallow. Sometimes I would like to disable the monitor to improve performance, sometimes I just don't want windows to hide on the laptop screen. Sometimes I want to output video to my tv and not have the laptop screen on. It really doesn't matter. This is not a "glitch" because the feature exists. It is just a shallow UI.

danieldk 14y ago

removing usb drives is annoying Side note: Alfred makes ejecting really simple: http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:eject http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:eject

pfisch 14y ago
Why do I need to eject at all though?
- spullara 14y ago
  Because on the Mac, writes to those devices are fast instead of slow. You'll find that on Mac, caching is enabled by default and on windows it is disabled by default. You can actually use a USB stick on a Mac almost like a normal disk. On windows, it is really too slow as write caching is disabled so you can pull it out at will when you aren't currently writing.