[NFBCS] OSX Questions

[Michael McQuaid]

Can you give an example of a repo you want to install? I think the first
way you described is correct, you can just brew install if it is a github
repo. If it is a different source, then you have to add it.

- Mick

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:35 AM Reece O’Bryan <Reece.obryan at pm.me> wrote:

> thank you very much for the reply! Brew tab seems to be the key! I’m
> having a little confusion even though I am reading the documentation on it.
> It says the following,
>
> If it’s on GitHub, users can install any of your formulae with brew
> install user/repo/formula. Homebrew will automatically add your
> github.com/user/homebrew-repo tap before installing the formula.
>
> From googling around I read that you need to add the repository by having
> it, but this makes it seem as if you can just, “brew install” followed by
> the repository and it will automatically do this, is that correct or do I
> first need to add the repository by tapping it and then running some
> variant of, “brew install” after it is tabbed?
>
> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:37 PM, Michael McQuaid <mickmcquaid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I think I answered the first question before but here it is again, just in
> case. You can use "brew tap" to deal with third party repositories and it
> defaults to github.
>
> Question 2: I don't know how to make the screen curtain come on at boot by
> itself, but there is a third party software that will make it come on at
> login. It is found at http://manytricks.com/desktopcurtain
>
> Not sure about question 3
>
> Regarding question 4, the only way I can find to open an app in background
> is through terminal or a script. I can't figure out why yours is opening in
> background. Sorry.
>
> One thing I'm doing in searching for help is prefacing the question with
> macOS instead of OSX since Apple is now calling it macOS. That seems to
> bring up more recent help.
>
> - Mick
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:53 AM Reece O’Bryan via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I have some questions for my new MacBook and I’m hoping some of
>> you can help:
>>
>> > 1. Can I use brew and/or cask to download apps or scripts from GitHub?
>> If so, can brew update them and pull the latest release from GitHub?
>> >
>> > 2. Can I make the screen curtain come on automatically at boot?
>> >
>> > 3. I’m not sure which key I pressed, but I have hidden some
>> applications that were in my applications folder, how can I add them back
>> and show everything installed in the applications folder? I know that the
>> applications weren’t uninstalled, just hidden, because they can still be
>> opened with Siri.
>> >
>> > 4. When opening a document or application it opens in the background
>> behind the window I can currently in. Can I make it so that focus goes to
>> whatever I am opening? I don’t want to have to command tab each and every
>> time.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for any replies,
>> >
>> > Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
>> _______________________________________________
>> NFBCS mailing list
>> NFBCS at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>> NFBCS:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/mickmcquaid%40gmail.com
>>
>
>
>