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OS X El Capitan [OT]
- Thread starter Ninja Dom
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Thus far I haven't seen an issue with my 2011 w/ discrete graphics/SSD so presumably newer ones will be fine (although a spinning hard drive might degrade the experience.)
EDIT: And there I go double-posting like a newbie.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
In OS X? You should be able to do it no matter what. As long as you have two windows that can be resized in all directions, OS X automatically lets you put it in fullscreen. Maybe Pages does something wrong. Either way, it doesn't matter if it's two apps or the same app as long as it's two separate windows. So basically the only apps you can't put next to itself is ones that only have one window like Notes.
On iOS however, you can't do two of the same app anyway since it doesn't use a windowing paradigm.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
Thanks. Wait, did I read that Office 2011 doesn't work? Is that right? Or is the only issue with Outlook?
I seem to have the worst luck with this.
My El Cap public beta didn't install properly and somehow killed my Retina iMac's hard drive. Apple eventually replaced it, thankfully.
I went back to Yosemite and waited for the final release of El Cap before trying again.
Aaaaand... it stalled while installing, again.
Eventually I managed to get it to safe boot... and then then it seemed to finish the install... rebooted it again... and now it SEEMS to be working. But um, I'm a little worried that all is not right under the hood.
Anyone have any ideas here for what I should do?
My El Cap public beta didn't install properly and somehow killed my Retina iMac's hard drive. Apple eventually replaced it, thankfully.
I went back to Yosemite and waited for the final release of El Cap before trying again.
Aaaaand... it stalled while installing, again.
Eventually I managed to get it to safe boot... and then then it seemed to finish the install... rebooted it again... and now it SEEMS to be working. But um, I'm a little worried that all is not right under the hood.
Anyone have any ideas here for what I should do?
Adam Scott Aukerman
Member
Is there anyway to force the install once the upgrade has been downloaded? I downloaded it through the app store last night, but chose not to install it until I'd run a backup. Upon opening the app store this evening, El Capitan is listed as 'Downloaded' in my updates list, but the button is greyed out with no option to install. Any ideas?
infiniteloop
Member
is it in your applications folder?
NekoFever
Member
Is there an installer app in your Applications folder? Should be called "Install OS X El Capitan" or something similar.
Adam Scott Aukerman
Member
Cheers, it is absolutely in the applications folder.
Dashboard defaults to off. You can turn it on under Settings -> Mission Control.
Mine is running better than it was with Yosemite. And I didn't do a clean install, just an update, but it feels way snappier than yesterday.
I didn't encounter any bugs but I haven't spent much time with it today.
The only thing I used on dashboard were the dictionary and system stats.
What are the best alternatives to get the same info/results on the new OS?
I would prefer not to turn dashboard back on.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Dictionary is a gesture now. And iStats Menus is the best.
Safari's Preference pane is a bit odd with all the icons bunched up to the left and still plenty space on the right.
well, that's how all preference panes in OS X look and have always looked, have they not?
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
There is still no proper OSX full screen support in any of the Adobe applications in latest CC2015, after what, three years of that feature existing? The problem is, they never seem to use native OS API for their user interfaces, but instead use their own convoluted garbage that is slow as hell and keeps getting slower with every new release for no obvious reason as the actual UI looks mostly the same as it did before.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Yeah, El Capitan now allows apps that didn't have fullscreen enabled to work anyway. But even it can't do anything for apps that decide to build their own UI. Adobe would have to implement it themselves.
if anyone had a problem with their logitech mouse not working, install the updated control center: http://support.logitech.com/software/logitech-control-center-for-macintosh-os-x
apparently I was using an older version and it couldnt find my performance MX mouse
apparently I was using an older version and it couldnt find my performance MX mouse
HUELEN10
Member
Except it is used differently and it is easy to look at 2 things at once.
Damn you! I need to go back...
You are right.
I guess the amount of icons in the Safari preference pain makes the left justification more noticeable.
The install will take an additional 6GB and then delete itself after installation. It may free up even more space as I was left with more hard drive space after installation than what I had before I started.
How do you do that? Is YouTube running in a different browser to Safari?
Resident_UA
Member
How? Please teach me
On Windows it takes less than a second.
I'll give you an example. I want to watch Youtube video on one side and browse Gaf of the other. I really have no easy way to do it on Mac, but I might be missing something.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Anyone else's Capitan download going at a fucking crawl?
My connection is fine, just did a speed test, but a 6GB download should not be taking me 20 hours. I assume this is on Apple's end? Servers getting hammered?
My connection is fine, just did a speed test, but a 6GB download should not be taking me 20 hours. I assume this is on Apple's end? Servers getting hammered?
Same. Window snapping is one of the killer features of Windows that I miss when I use my Mac.How? Please teach me
On Windows it takes less than a second.
I'll give you an example. I want to watch Youtube video on one side and browse Gaf of the other. I really have no easy way to do it on Mac, but I might be missing something.
How? Please teach me
On Windows it takes less than a second.
I'll give you an example. I want to watch Youtube video on one side and browse Gaf of the other. I really have no easy way to do it on Mac, but I might be missing something.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?mt=12
Mine took about 10 hours to download so...
I use both window snapping and split view extensively, they serve similar purposes but work a bit differently. Split view treats the windows as two separate "screens" and formats the content accordingly, which can be very useful depending on what you're doing, while window snapping is faster and more malleable with adjusting windows sizes.
Quick example:
Quick example:
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Ugh. Mine keeps jumping between 1 day and around 10 hours. Uuuuughgggggghhhh
Souless_PJ
Banned
Yep. Even with the new El Cap features this is still best if you want Windows style window snapping.
Resident_UA
Member
I know about the tool. Got free version, but unsure if that's safe... It's just crazy that Apple is doing "Split View" without addressing the simplest thing...
Try force quitting the app store, restarting, and then upgrading from the front page and not the updates tab. I had the same issue and that fixed it for me.
Incitemaybe
Member
I use Final Cut X and found with the official release (10.11) it wouldn't load at all. I joined the Beta and downloaded 10.11.1 and now Final Cut X works great
I thought it started working, but I'm still stuck. But thank you for the advice.
Clock and hold the green maximize button on the upper left corner
You'll want to have two separate Windows Open in Safari. One of them I have Youtube in and the other has the mobile Neogaf site (as I find it scales much better when in split screen). Take the Youtube video Fullscreen which sets it as a separate desktop as seen in Mission Control:
Then I drag the Safari window with GAF to the top of the screen which opens mission control and then drag it to over the fullscreen youtube video which results in something like this:
Tarkus
Member
I approve of that game you're playing! Top fightYou'll want to have two separate Windows Open in Safari. One of them I have Youtube in and the other has the mobile Neogaf site (as I find it scales much better when in split screen). Take the Youtube video Fullscreen which sets it as a separate desktop as seen in Mission Control:
Then I drag the Safari window with GAF to the top of the screen which opens mission control and then drag it to over the fullscreen youtube video which results in something like this:
Do you just like mobile gaf or is it because it's easier to read in split-view?
ibitegirls
Member
Anyone know why Mozilla won't run Silverlight (Microsoft) ?
I'm trying to watch TWC sports live stream but it won't even load... : (
I feel like Mozilla and the new OS have some kind of strange issue.
I'm trying to watch TWC sports live stream but it won't even load... : (
I feel like Mozilla and the new OS have some kind of strange issue.
The Albatross
Member
Trying to install it on my MacBook Air after my desktop installation was flawless and HOLY SHIT THE APP STORE IS SO GODDAM SLOW. Projected download time was 2 DAYS.