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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 aiurtourist »

I'm sad that this is now necessary. Mac OS X 10.5 was the first version of OS X which I could start using for work immediately without installing any hacks (with the one exception of the Terminal Colors SIMBL plugin).

My dad says, "I don't want to upgrade! Things work fine! They always dick around with everything!" He's talking about QuarkXPress and MS Office and whatnot, which is understandable. But, for the first time ever, I'm not excited about the new version of the Mac operating system.

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

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Post by Duff »

aiurtourist wrote: post #51

I'm sad that this is now necessary. Mac OS X 10.5 was the first version of OS X which I could start using for work immediately without installing any hacks (with the one exception of the Terminal Colors SIMBL plugin). My dad says, "I don't want to upgrade! Things work fine! They always dick around with everything!" He's talking about QuarkXPress and MS Office and whatnot, which is understandable. But, for the first t…

I'm really disappointed in Lion -- lots of gratuitous changes without much benefit. The Finder in particular is horrific.

I do like the new Terminal.app.

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

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Post by calloc »

Is there any way to disable or shorten the animation that happens when you switch spaces or whatever they renamed them to. I like being able to switch between MacVim in one space and my terminal in another and the animation slows me down that by the time it is done animating it has missed all of my keystrokes for running make or other build tools ...

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

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Post by petercooper »

CrLf wrote: post #21

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -bool true It is interesting how many people don't like the 3D dock. Maybe Apple should think about this.

I've always hated it and I tend to revert/like the defaults over time (out of simplicity). A 3 dimensional UI element smack bang on an otherwise 2D environment sticks out like a sore thumb and is totally unnecessary when the 2D variant is both attractive and direct.

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

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Post by emehrkay »

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.

Are you talking about editing system files through finder? Finder isn't (and shouldn't be) running as an administrator. But it is possible to run finder as root if you really want, just google it. I bet it something like

    killall Finder; sudo /application/Finder;

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

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Post by zaius »

seanalltogether wrote: post #18

The top of my list is always this. # Show hidden files/folders defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

You can show hidden files in an open dialog by hitting "Cmd-Shift-period". It unfortunately doesn't work in finder though.

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

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Post by tadfisher »

micheljansen wrote: post #19
pat2man wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I agree, but some of the new defaults Apple introduced are really weird. For example, why does mounting a new volume no longer bring that window to the foreground? It used to be trivial to install an App by downloading a Disk Image from a web page: Safari would automatically open it when ready and it would pop into the foreground so you could install. Now, there is no feedback at all (apart from a quick "verifying im…

Windows never stealing focus isn't a weird default, it's a sensible one. The sensible thing to do in this situation is to display a desktop notification to select the volume. I haven't used OS X extensively, so I don't know if it has a built-in desktop notification system (I remember having to install Growl to get one), but this is something that Windows and Linux have had for a while now.
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