This post will interest only Mac users so those of you who worship in another church will probably want to skip it.<\/p>\n
I spend almost all of my tube time in either Emacs or Safari but I usually have three applications open. In addition to Emacs and Safari, I have the Messages app running in another workspace.<\/p>\n
A Few years ago, I used to joke that I was getting in touch with my inner-teenager whenever I sent a text but these days it\u2019s become mainstream and largely replaced email for a certain type of message. That\u2019s especially true of Messages, which is really more like the old IM chat applications than texting. For a long time, I\u2019ve had F9 mapped to open or switch to Messages but that stopped working when I upgraded to Catalina. That was annoying but not fatal because I could just switch to the workspace where it was the only app running.<\/p>\n
I just saw this Daring Fireball post<\/a> that explains what\u2019s going on. With Catalina, Apple moved non-writable applications from Of course, it\u2019s not only Messages that is affected. If you\u2019re having a problem accessing an application after upgrading to Catalina, you should probably investigate if it got moved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post will interest only Mac users so those of you who worship in another church will probably want to skip it. I spend almost all of my tube time in either Emacs or Safari but I usually have three … Continue reading \/Applications<\/code> to \/System\/Applications<\/code> and Messages was now living in \/System\/Applications<\/code>. Once I remapped F9 to open \/System\/Applications\/Messages<\/code> instead of \/Applications\/Messages<\/code>, the F9 hotkey started working again.<\/p>\n