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~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

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Re: ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

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Post by pat2man »

antipax wrote: post #2

Cool. I don't know that I'd call them sensible in general, though, even if they are sensible for you. Disabling disk image verification permanently, for instance, is probably a bad idea. Expanded save/load panel by default is awesome, though. So thanks!

I agree, the defaults that Apple set will probably be preferred by most people. This is more of a hacker optimized set of defaults.

Re: ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

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Post by albedoa »

tyler_ball wrote: post #4

Some of these are hard to understand from their one-line descriptions. e.g. 'Remove useless icons from Safari's bookmark bar'? Maybe a blog post is in order?

Yes! Mathias, if you could do something like this, it would be very helpful. I didn't even know about .osx.

Edit: And I don't even know how to search for information about it since the dot is ignored in Google and GitHub :D

Re: ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

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Post by stuartjmoore »

swlkr wrote: post #6

so this disables resumes for Preview: defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false Is there a way to disable resume for every app? Maybe it's just this? defaults write com.apple.* NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

I believe you can do that via Settings > General.

Re: ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

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Post by tvon »

albedoa wrote: post #5
tyler_ball wrote: post #4

Some of these are hard to understand from their one-line descriptions. e.g. 'Remove useless icons from Safari's bookmark bar'? Maybe a blog post is in order?

Yes! Mathias, if you could do something like this, it would be very helpful. I didn't even know about .osx. Edit: And I don't even know how to search for information about it since the dot is ignored in Google and GitHub :D

~/.osx is anything outside of this particular file.

Re: ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

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Post by mathias »

albedoa wrote: post #5
tyler_ball wrote: post #4

Some of these are hard to understand from their one-line descriptions. e.g. 'Remove useless icons from Safari's bookmark bar'? Maybe a blog post is in order?

Yes! Mathias, if you could do something like this, it would be very helpful. I didn't even know about .osx. Edit: And I don't even know how to search for information about it since the dot is ignored in Google and GitHub :D

I should probably point out that `.osx` is not a standard or anything. I just found myself collecting all these gems – not all of them are hidden settings, but most are – and decided to organize them into a single file :)

It’s pretty useful though; when I set up a new machine, I just clone my repo, run the bootstrapper, then `./.osx` and BOOM!

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