When looking in the terminal, I have NameIWantoToChange@My-MacBook-Air. I've searched and found ways to change the name to the right of the @ sign but I want to change the name of the one to the left, I'm new to Apple and don't know what it's called to properly search for the solution.
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My computer name in System Preferences &gt; Sharing is set to &quot;archos&quot;, but is showing as &quot;iphone&quot; on Terminal. It just started doing this after I loaded Xcode for doing iPhone development: Last login: Mon Nov  7 14:46:55 on ttys001 iphone:~ travis$   Any ideas what could be causing this?
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I have only spent 5 months with Ubuntu and it has been an awesome experience, I hardly boot into Windows now, but there are some things I miss, like the  I used to have in Windows.   I use the program a lot when I boot into Windows but I'd prefer if there was an alternative or something similar cause the program had a plethora of renaming options with a decent gui.  I'm aware of the rename command in terminal, but I've never had any luck with it.  A screenshot of what it looks like:   Questions   Is there an alternative of this program for Ubuntu? A great command line resource on how to get this done without a gui?
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I was playing around with the Find My Mac iPhone app (just testing it out) and hit the "lock" option. My MacBook Pro is now locked and I have no place to enter the 4 digit PIN.  When I start it, it shows the Apple logo with a loading circle and it shuts down. If I start whilst holding alt it asks for the PIN, which I enter, then it shows three partitions: Macintosh HD, Recovery &amp; Windows. If I select Windows it works perfectly, but the two others show the problem with the Apple logo and loading circle before it shuts down.
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Is it possible to change where macOS Notification Center alerts appear on the screen?  They currently appear at the top right of the screen with the menu bar:    Alerts appearing in the top right tend to cover up work I'm doing more often than not. They cover up browser tabs, toolbar icons, and window titles.  I would prefer, say, the bottom right corner of the screen.  If moving the alerts is not possible, is it possible to change the screen on which they appear?
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When I open my terminal it shows this:  wpa-2-602:~ david$   I just curious what the wpa-2-602 means? "david" is my user name, and sometimes it was something else. What makes it change?
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I'm new to Mac usage.  It seems that most commands trip over options given after the file names. In linux, which I've used for years, it doesn't matter.  On Apple, it does.  Is there some setting somewhere or some hack to make commands like ls behave "normal"?  dwilson 0====&gt; ls -l p* -rw-r--r--@ 1 dwilson  owner  184 Jul 29 13:57 poo.c -rw-r--r--@ 1 dwilson  owner  133 Jul 29 13:57 poo.h  dwilson 0====&gt; ls p* -l ls: -l: No such file or directory poo.c        poo.h  dwilson 1====&gt;
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When I wake my Mac mini from sleep, it occasionally comes up with a dialog saying "The name of your computer "whatever" is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to "whatever (1)"" (or (2), I'm up to (4) at the moment).  The Mac is plugged in to the network via an ethernet cable and gets a DHCP assigned IP address from my router which runs pfSense. I have DHCP set to give the same IP address to the Mac's Mac.  Why does this happen, and more usefully, how can I make the machine stop renaming itself?  In System Preferences - Sharing I have 'File sharing' and 'Remote Login' enabled.
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I have accidentally typed my name wrong when I created the administrator account. Although I managed to change the user name at the login screen, I am unable to rename the /home/oldusername to /home/newusername. I tried most of the online tutorials, and it failed.  The code I tried was this:  usermod -l newusername -m -d /home/newusername oldusername   But the output is:  cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.   How can I fix the issue and change the folder to newusername and expect all the applications to work as before?
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I want to make a shell alias that starts a certain program and also changes the title of the terminal to the name of the program.  How can I do that?  In case it matters, I am running the terminal on Ubuntu and connecting to a Debian server via ssh.
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I'm trying to make a mini game but I want it so that when you press a button over a command block it will say "BOB welcome", so 'bob' instead of the @a or @p sign and then followed by the message. All I know is that I need to use /tellraw.
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My home folder name (bob 1) does not match my account name (bob)", but I want it to.  How I got here:   Got a new Mac Didn't have the cables to transfer from previous Mac, so I just set up a simple test account with my same username "bob" Once I had the cables I created a new account called "Admin" and then logged in as that account and deleted my previous test user account "bob" in System Preferences. Migrated data from old Mac. This resulted in a new account called "bob" but the home folder for that account was named "bob 1". I discovered that my deletion of the test "bob" account had not actually deleted the home folder called "bob".   While logged in as "bob" (which might have been a bad idea) I tried deleting the home folder called "bob" (from terminal) and then editing in System Preferences to change my home folder to "bob". After restart it walked me through the full setup and I realized it created a NEW home folder called "bob", and my old folder was still called "bob 1", except now my account was not associated with that folder (with all my actual data). So... restored from Time Machine.  Now I'd like to do it right. So -    I have a working account named "bob" that is linked to home folder "bob 1". I don't want to rename the account, just rename the home folder and have my account properly link to it. I have an orphaned home directory named "bob" that I can delete via Terminal easily enough. How should I go about renaming the home folder and maintaining (or re-establishing) the association between my user account and the renamed home folder? Or should I just give up and live with "bob 1"...
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I noticed that my MacBook's keyboard has the word enter above the return key. I also noticed that on Mac OS X, there's a special symbol for return ↩, and another for enter ⌤. How would I send the enter key if my MacBook has no numpad?  Is there any difference between these two keys?
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Update: The link below does not have a complete answer. Having to set the path or variable in two places (one for GUI and one for shell) is lame.  Not Duplicate of:     Coming from a Windows background where it's very easy to set and modify environment variables (just go to System Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables), it does not seem to be that straight forward on Mac OS 10.5. Most references say I should update /etc/profile or ~/.profile. Are those the equivalent of System Variables and User Variables? For example, where should I set my JAVA_HOME variable?    EDIT:  I want to be able to access the variable from the terminal as well as an app like Eclipse. Also, I hope I don't have to restart/logout to make this take effect.
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My problem is that I have only one reference. So I would like the head of this part to appear "Reference" instead of commonly "References". More generally, could we change the title "References" to an arbitrary name?  Thank you very much for your help!
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I just ran across a screenshot of someone's terminal:    Is there a list of all of the characters which can be used in a Bash prompt, or can someone get me the character for the star and the right arrow?
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How do I change (switch) the input language in Mac OSX  (English->Russian->Hebrew). In Windows it is done by pressing alt-shift.  What is the equivalent in OSX ?
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The Terminal of my Mac when I open it says this :  Last login: Sun Jul 21 00:07:48 on ttys000 -bash: export: `/Users/vishveshbhat/Desktop/flutter/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin': not a valid identifier -bash: export: `=': not a valid identifier -bash: export: `/Users/vishveshbhat/Desktop/flutter/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:': not a valid identifier Ganeshs-MacBook-Air:~ vishveshbhat$    And whenever I enter a command, I get "command not found". What to do?