Jun 10, 2014 - If you think iTunes can be controlled only from its toolbar, you have. Ask the iTunes Guy column and writes about Macs, music and more on.

Spotted by, a free Mac app named is incredibly useful if you too have been bothered by High Sierra’s new attitude toward media keys. Essentially, as you move around High Sierra, the media keys follow you. If you watch a video on YouTube, the media keys become associated with Safari.

Even an autoplay video ad can trigger the switch, something that can be incredibly annoying if you leave iTunes running throughout the day for podcasts and music. High Sierra Media Key Enabler, developed by Milan Toth, fixes these woes in an easy to use third-party app. The app literally has one purpose: locking the media keys to either iTunes or Spotify. This means that if you open a YouTube video or any other form of media, the keys will still control iTunes or Spotify. Once you’ve downloaded and opened the app, all the woes you were having with They changed the behaviour of the media controller keys, they no longer control iTunes, they control the video playback in safari. This pissed off a lot of people including me, so I just created a menu bar app to proxy media key events to iTunes/Spotify while Apple fixes this.

It doesn’t support Touch Bar yet, only physical buttons. One thing to note about this app is that it does place a small play symbol in your menu bar, but this can easily be removed, which hides unwanted icons from your menu bar. High Sierra Media Key Enabler currently only works with physical media controls – not on the more recent Touch Bar controls. This is certainly a simple app, and one that’s need for existence is somewhat jarring, but it’s a must have if you’ve become annoyed with how High Sierra handles media controls.

I'd like to permanently see a clickable list of windows I have open, in the same way that the taskbar allows in Windows. Can I do this on Mac? Some details: • i have many virtual desktops (spaces), so often a single application has windows on many of them. • I often have multiple windows of each application, such as the terminal or browser, on the same virtual desktop • I have multiple monitors, if it matters. Edit: When I say 'permanently see a clickable list of windows I have open' I mean that I want to see every window I have open, and I'd like to be able to click on each one to open that window.

You can also set it as default. Mac address for google pixel 2 xl. • Open the launcher.

I'm not looking for the newer behaviour where tasks are clustered by application. I'm not too familiar with the Windows taskbar so maybe I don't know what I'm missing, but the Dock seems to serve the same purpose. Maybe it just does it differently than what you expect. Configure sierra 250u for macos.

• Click an app icon to switch to it. All of the app's windows will be brought forward. • Right-click an icon to select from the list of windows for that app. Update: The Dock fulfills the basic needs of a task bar, but in your comment you mentioned that what you're looking for is specifically tailored for virtual desktops and shows separate lists for the tasks in each desktop. You're right, the standard Dock represents all of the open windows & apps together.

Unfortunately Apple's virtual desktop implementation 'Spaces' is lacking for true task-oriented separation like you're used to. Spaces feels like an afterthought: the window manager & applications just weren't designed with it in mind. This extends beyond just the Dock: it's conceptual. The Mac is more application-centric than window-centric and the virtual desktop paradigm doesn't fit as well as other operating systems where each window behaves like its own independent application instance that acts as a unit.