@pludikovsky On adding printers, I'm not sure I completely understand it, but in general you don't have to add them. Trying to print with them makes the drivers available. It's just not a "thing" to add printers. I suppose if it was a really unusual printer or perhaps a really old one it might be?
@podfeet Yes, it's an older model. With Linux I added the printer and supplied the PPD, worked immediately. Same for scanning, SANE didn't even need any configuration.
With macOS I can't use it without installing some software from the manufacturer who stopped supporting this printer around macOS 10.12.
@pludikovsky Interesting. I'm using fairly old printers but they were mainstream in their day. Dumb question, when you try to print, at the top it says Printer with a dropdown and then the option to Add Printer, you get a three-tab window. Default tab should search the LAN for printers - you def don't see it there?
@podfeet I've tried it through the System Settings, and I see the printer. But I only get the option to add it as a "Generic PCL printer", nothing else.
@pludikovsky For future reference, I've been generating what I call "Tiny Mac Tips" posts with the goal of taking new Mac users from being able to get the job done to becoming proficient users. You might find them useful on your journey. Here's a link to the latest set of tips (part 7) with links back to 1-6.
@pludikovsky Very interested to following your journey. About folders in the dock - you def can. They just live to the right of the vertical split.
You're right that command-tab swtiches apps, but you can switch windows for a given app with command-`.
Under some circumstances you can interact with a window that's not activated, but selecting text isn't one of them. it's hard to picture but you can open a text entry area on one window, copy from another and paste into the first.
@pludikovsky At least the Dock thing should work: Applications can be added to the left of the separator in the Dock; drives, folders and the bin to the right. After adding a folder to the Dock, make sure to check out the display options (e.g. grid or list).
@kernpanik@podfeet The functionality I'm looking for is a single shortcut that cycles through all windows. It'll take me longer to first cyvcle through the applications and then switch to a different shortcut to just cycle the windows within that application.
@pludikovsky Ah, well … in that case the only option is macOS's mousey-clicky Mission Control thingy. (Having switched back and forth between macOS and GNU/Linux myself a couple of times, I feel you though.) @podfeet
@pludikovsky@kernpanik If you have a trackpad, swiping up with four fingers shows you every open window at once, so no need to toggle through them. I don’t use it often because I am VERY messy with opening zillions of windows and apps at once. Probably shouldn’t have bought so much RAM…
@podfeet@kernpanik Will keep that in mind, but I doubt I'd use it often since I work mostly in the terminal, so constantly switching between the full-sized keyboard and the trackpad on the laptop is something I'd like to avoid.
@pludikovsky@kernpanik I hear you. I despise trackpads … but then I got an external Magic Trackpad for my laptop and it’s glorious. I cannot explain why a trackpad on a laptop is awful and one to the right of an external keyboard is good. It just is. Talked my husband into trying it and he agrees.
Create aliases of the applications in question and move them to the folder. (Symbolic links work as well, they can be created via 'ln -s' in the Terminal.)
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