

Press a modifier key to get an alternate toolbar.

One thing you’ll notice is that GoldenChaos is actually several toolbars in one. To take the tool to a fun new level, consider one of the many third-party Touch Bar apps on the market. The first thing I always do is *turn off Siri!* I don’t know about you but I hit Siri by accident all the time, interrupting my work, and forcing me to interact with the world’s thickest personal assistant. The MacBook Pro's Touch Bar is a fascinating feature that allows you to interact with your MacBook uniquely. This is the biggest preference dialogue I’ve ever seen. Open the BTT preferences and prepare to be overwhelmed. Luckily, Ive been using BetterTouchTool, which is probably the best gesture control app on macOS for so long. GoldenChaos is pretty useful out of the box, but there are some things you’ll want to play with. To give you an idea of all the useful features of BTT let’s take a tour. Looking through their user forums, I couldn’t find any perfect matches for this use case, but luckily bradcurtis had built a set of custom mappings (a complex modification in. You can get it just how you want it - with a couple of hours of fiddling - or you can download the free GoldenChaos toolbar and be ready to go in minutes. Here’s what I wanted Karabiner to do: remap the keys of the Tartarus Pro to seldom-used keystrokes so I could then set those as triggers for Better Touch Tool. Leo Laporte gives you helpful tips to get the most from your Mac every week on Hands-On Mac.įor a long time, I thought the MacBook Pro Touchbar was a useless gimmick. BetterTouchTool Is Mac Productivity at Its Best Thanks to BTT, you dont need to switch between your Macs trackpad, keyboard, and other input devices as often as you do now.
