Totalfinder re3view9/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Now comes the only slightly annoying portion of the process: you must logout and login for the change to take effect.īut after that task is done, you should once again be able to use the Escape key to dismiss the Witch switcher panel. You’ll be greeted by this incredibly obvious dialog:Ĭlick the Liberate button, then quit Escape Key Liberator. Usage couldn’t be much easier: download and mount the disk image, then launch the program (right from the disk image it’s fine). To fix this problem, we’ve created a simple little application, Escape Key Liberator. But if you did use Command-Escape for Front Row, you’ll want to use this fix.) We filed an Apple bug report on this back in March of 2011, but it’s still open and unresolved. (If you disabled Front Row in 10.6, or remapped its activation keys, and then upgraded to Lion, you’re probably not having this problem. ![]() So if you use Command-Tab to activate Witch, and then press Escape to cancel the window, Lion sees a Command-Escape keypress, and captures it-Witch never sees it, and its switcher panel isn’t dismissed. In a nutshell, Lion is reserving the Command-Escape keystroke to activate Front Row, even though there’s no Front Row to activate. What we found is that the problem is indeed in Lion, and it’s related to Front Row (which, ironically enough, isn’t in Lion). Peter dug into Witch’s code, and could find no reason for this, so then we started looking at the operating system itself. You can click and drag a tab to re-position.Early in 2011, as we were testing our apps with the Lion developer previews, Peter and I noticed something odd with Witch in Lion: some, but not all, of our Macs were unable to dismiss the Witch switcher panel via the Escape key. In the Finder > Preferences pane, I also set the default path that opens when I create a new Tab – I selected Dropbox under “New finder windows show:” dropdown. I first go to Finder > Preferences and click “Open folders in tabs instead of windows” so that any folder I double-click opens as a new Tab.īut I usually stick with the ⌘ + T shortcut to launch a new Tab, just like in Safari (there’s also the “+” on far right to click open a new Tab). It’s not perfect, and I can’t sort folders on TOP(!!!!), but the native Tabs in Finder work well for my needs. Starting with Mavericks, Apple finally built Tabs into Finder although I didn’t start using them until TotalFinder was unstable in El Capitan. There are great alternatives to TotalFinder but I value simplicity and prefer to stick with native OS X features whenever I can. It’s a shame because TotalFinder was amazing (why doesn’t Apple let me sort the Finder with folders on TOP?). ![]() Unfortunately, with the introduction of the super-security-feature System Integrity Protection in El Capitan, the developers have thrown in the towel. I used TotalFinder from BinaryAge for years as a Finder add-on that gave me Tabs and other wonderful options. I like to use one SINGLE Finder Window, and then I open multiple locations/folders in Tabs. I’m constantly accessing multiple folders in Finder and if I had to open a New Window every time I’d go crazy. I can’t use Safari without Tabs, and now I can’t use Finder without Tabs. ![]()
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