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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 tyler_ball »

mathias wrote: post #13
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?

It’s about these icons: http://i.imgur.com/RGRQy.png

Thanks! Here's mine if anyone's interested. https://github.com/tylerball/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

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

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Post by llambda »

tvon wrote: post #12

For a larger list of "hidden" settings you might want to check out Secrets[1], a database of these 'defaults' settings that you can tweak from a preference pane. [1] http://secrets.blacktree.com/

Whoa, cool! I had no idea this existed. I've occasionally had to tweak some defaults but never really knew where the seemingly arcane knowledge had been drawn from (I was usually lucky enough to find a mailing list where someone had mentioned a solution, but of course that eschewed where they had found their knowledge). It's great to have a repository to draw from. Thank you!

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

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Post by jasonkester »

I'm looking for the setting that stops OSX from asking me to retype my admin password 1000 times per hour.

ME: Cmd+c

Macbook Air: Seriously??? OK, if you really want to copy that text I'll let you, but first you'll need to prove that you're an administrator.

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

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Post by NoPiece »

whalesalad wrote: post #39

The first one is BRILLIANT. I've been wanting this forever. The one thing that I miss from being a Windows user back in the day.

Totally agree - just set this on Snow Leopard (enable tab in modal dialogs), and has come in handy already.

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

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Post by 2arrs2ells »

jasonkester wrote: post #43

I'm looking for the setting that stops OSX from asking me to retype my admin password 1000 times per hour. ME: Cmd+c Macbook Air: Seriously??? OK, if you really want to copy that text I'll let you, but first you'll need to prove that you're an administrator.

It's the graphical "sudo make me a sandwich"

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

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Post by peterjmag »

whalesalad wrote: post #39

The first one is BRILLIANT. I've been wanting this forever. The one thing that I miss from being a Windows user back in the day.

Is this somehow different from the "Full Keyboard Access: All controls" setting under System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts?

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

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Post by modeless »

Zev wrote: post #28
modeless wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever once gotten a warning from disk image verification that saved you enough time to justify all the time you've spent waiting for it?

Yes. Many times.

Really? What corrupted disk images are you opening? I've never had it report an error, and I download software in .dmg files all the time (and wait for verification all the time).
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