kevinsuttle/macos-defaults

A centralized place for the awesome work started by @mathiasbynens on .macos

macOS Defaults

A place to centralize the great work @mathiasbynens did gathering and fostering a community around finding and documenting macOS default configuration from the command-line.

Repo configuration

Note: There are 2 branches.

1. master: Reflects http://mths.be/macos at all times.
2. suttle: My personal preferences and settings.

Executing the .macos file

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible macOS defaults:

./.macos

Reference

Unsure of what you can modify or which commands to use? Check out REFERENCE.md.

macos-defaults's Issues

Gatekeeper

http://osxdaily.com/2015/11/05/stop-gatekeeper-auto-rearm-mac-os-x/

Add content around tags

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/93979/are-the-osx-mavericks-tags-visible-from-the-command-line

Number of Recent items

Add tccutil

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/tccutil.1.html

Only one command available, but could be useful.

Menu icons always showing

The section "# Menu bar: hide the Time Machine, Volume, User, and Bluetooth icons" does not work on my OSX 10.9.1 box. The icons always remain, even after a killall and restart. Even resetting PRAM did not help. Any suggestions?

Always provide an undo

Customize Launchpad

Has anyone found a way to customize it on Sierra? In theory there should be a sqlite3 db in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/… But I've not seen anything.

Change default browser

This one seems less straightforward. More about changing a group of file type handlers for OSX.

For example:

# For Safari
    handler id:            580
        URL scheme:    http
        options:
        all roles:     com.apple.safari (0x8000042b)
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    handler id:            672
        URL scheme:    https
        options:
        all roles:     com.apple.safari (0x8000042b)
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    handler id:            764
        content type:  public.html
        options:
        all roles:     com.apple.safari (0x8000042b)
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    handler id:            856
        content type:  public.xhtml
        options:
        all roles:     com.apple.safari (0x8000042b)

You can find and display the values in a temporary file with the following command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Laun\ chServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump | open -fe

Disable Caps-lock key, possibly with custom .keylayout file

mathiasbynens/dotfiles#310
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/custom.keylayout/tree/master/qwerty

4-finger double-tap to switch spaces?

Doesn't appear to work in El Capitan. http://www.cultofmac.com/133205/use-a-secret-gesture-to-switch-to-the-previous-space-os-x-tips/GfPSPXpjSQuLqMCH.99

Test setting keyboard shortcuts

Add possible values for defaults commands

Could use @mathiasbynens' help on this.

Animation between full-screen windows?

Wondering if there is a duration setting for the animation that happens when going between full-screen app windows. Maybe it's just me, but it feels gratuitous.

Research keeping applications from disabling 'remove from dock'

Add iTerm Defaults

https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-hidden-settings.html
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/Applescript

Add osascript content

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/osascript.1.html

LCD Font Smoothing

I see two possible properties here.

defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleFontSmoothing
defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleAntiAliasingThreshold

Not sure which is which. @mathiasbynens any ideas?

Wallpaper Setting

I was looking if there exists a setting for the desktop wallpaper dir. I would like to simply set one string with the wallpaper dir for all space. I looked up these domains com.apple.systempreferences and com.apple.desktop but could not find any answer.

Do you know where this setting is hidden?

Control animation duration for hiding menu bar in El Capitan?

I figured out how to hide it via the CLI,
defaults write -g _HIHideMenuBar -int 1

but not control the animation. It's not slow by default, I'm just curious.

Implement vars and functions

Wondering if setting variables and functions for this would make more sense, instead of listing tons of file URLs and defaults write commands.

Document `strings` util

http://lifehacker.com/5715625/how-to-find-hidden-features-in-mac-applications

System-wide cursor blink speed?

http://www.defaults-write.com/change-os-x-text-cursor-blink-rate/

Force touch

I have an early 2013 Retina MBP, so I need to pick up a new Magic Trackpad 2 to test. Those of you who have newer MBPs, let me know if you find any settings.

Rename repo, references to `MacOS`

Handoff (aka Continuity)

The one thing I've found is that you can at least see if it's supported on your Mac.
system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType | grep LMP (via LifeHacker)

Testing El Capitan

Going line by line here for El Capitan, taken from mathiasbynens/dotfiles@605a010

Implement dtrace

Hat tip @mathiasbynens and @pornelski

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dtrace.1.html