Mac UI

I’ve mentioned already why I am now using a mac after years of beloved Windows.

But I’m still complaining about the really bad UI behavior of macOS (I’m on Sierra). And the ca_fr keyboard that should have had the exact same layout that Windows had for years instead of trying to be wiser… But that’s hardware so there’s nothing I can do about it.

During my last round of complains I was asked to write an article about it. So here it is.

First, one of the first things I’ve fixed is the random behavior of Home and End keys. By default, depending on the app you are in, the behave differently. This is plainly insane. Here is the fix:

cd ~/Library
mkdir KeyBindings
cd KeyBindings
vi DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Put these lines in that file, including the curly braces:

{
/* Remap Home / End keys to be correct */
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home */
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; /* End */
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Home */
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + End */
"^\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfDocument:"; /* Ctrl + Home */
"^\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfDocument:"; /* Ctrl + End */
"$^\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfDocumentAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Ctrl + Home */
"$^\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfDocumentAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Ctrl + End */
}

Then, macOS is lacking Windows docking. So I’ve installed BetterTouchTool for that.

Back to complaining. Here are the things I wasn’t able to fix so far.

That’s it for the day. Can you help me?