My usual text expander, Typinator, doesn't work when Diablo III is in fullscreen. How can I expand text in D3—is there anything built-in, or should another OS X text expansion utility work?
I've tried the trial version of TextExpander and it seems to work in StarCraft II in fullscreen. I don't have Diablo III beta access so I can't truly say if it'll work… but since they're both Blizzard games, the chances are high.
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When I set the render distance to Far in mine craft (latest version as of December 30 2011) it says that I need to install 64bit java.
Interesting Information:
This is the error message that I am getting:
Although I can still use the "Far" render distance, it is a tad choppy.
When I open Java Preferences (located in /Applications/Utilities) this is what I see:
Minecraft on Mac OS X with 64-bit Java
So you're a slave to warning messages and you want Minecraft to use 64-bit Java. Here's how to do it on the command line. These instructions were crafted on MacOS Lion, which should prefer 64-bit Java when possible (Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences). These instructions assume the default Minecraft.app location, in the main /Applications folder. I had a few tabs open, while I was sussing this out, including an excellent forum post, a post on JavaApplicationStub bits, and the official reference for CF keys.
Here we go.
Swap out Minecraft's JavaApplicationStub for the current OS' version:
gzip /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub
cp
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/
Then, add 64-bit architecture to Minecraft's possibilities:
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :Java:JVMArchs:0 string 'x86_64'"
/Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/Info.plist
Launch. That should do it. Watch out for creepers. Have a nice day.
If everything goes wrong, here's how to roll back from here to your original configuration:
rm /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub
gunzip /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub.gz
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Delete :Java:JVMArchs:0" /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/Info.plist
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As silly as it sounds, I just can't manage to switch out and back into full-screen games on my Mac OSX Lion laptop, like Alt-Tab does on Windows. I've tried searching online and found posts saying I should use the ⌘ (Command) key with m or f or Esc, but none of these work... and in general I had some trouble searching for it online since Lion has a new "fullscreen" feature for applications which behaves differently than fullscreen games but is called the same :(
So, is there a way to do this?
Right now I'm relying on the Steam overlay which allows me to access a browser from in-game, but sometimes I want to access other applications and I just can't figure out how.
⌘tab usually is correct.
Unfortunately many games are badly ported - so they often do not support it in full-screen mode. Some games (for me Telltale games) allow to switch to a "window" mode - when you are in that it is typically possible to switch.
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This should not be a dupe of this question. I am trying to get Nethack up and running on OSX Lion, and the QT client no longer works (goodbye PPC support).
I found the Nethack Cocoa project, however the tileset is both slow and not very attractive IMO (I was a fan of the smaller, quicker tileset).
My question is if there are any other non-PPC Nethack tile-based clients that work with Lion (other than the one I mentioned), and if not, any way to replace the existing tiles with the more standard Nethack tiles.
To be honest, if none exist I'll probably go back to the terminal...
Nethack Cocoa supports different (and custom) tilesets via the Game > Tilesets menu item. There's an ASCII mode as well but I'm not sure if it's any faster...
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This should not be a dupe of this question. I am trying to get Nethack up and running on OSX Lion, and the QT client no longer works (goodbye PPC support).
I found the Nethack Cocoa project, however the tileset is both slow and not very attractive IMO (I was a fan of the smaller, quicker tileset).
My question is if there are any other non-PPC Nethack tile-based clients that work with Lion (other than the one I mentioned), and if not, any way to replace the existing tiles with the more standard Nethack tiles.
To be honest, if none exist I'll probably go back to the terminal...
Nethack Cocoa supports different (and custom) tilesets via the Game > Tilesets menu item. There's an ASCII mode as well but I'm not sure if it's any faster...
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