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What I want is something to reduce/eliminate the animation when switching spaces with the three finger swipe in Lion. It is so slow that I find it unusable.
The ability to completely disable the animation (like we could in Snow Leopard) would be amazing though.
another useful one to avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
I used to have my Dropbox folder on my secondary (NTFS formatted) harddrive so I could use a symlink to share my Dropbox folder across OSX and my Windows 7 Bootcamp install instead of having duplicate Dropbox folders for each OS. It ended up spewing .DS_Store files all over my employer's company dropbox folders.
What gets me is the option-click that hides the window you're moving away from. Does anyone know how to disable that?
OS X keyboard is so slow for me, so I set this one defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0 To make it blasting fast almost like in Linux (Gnome).
Is that what you mean by slow?
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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.
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?
And many of the ones I skimmed can be set from various other GUIs as well. This is just an easy way to apply one person's set of preferences to your machine.
another useful one to avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
# hidden icons in dock are semi transparent
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
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.
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"
What gets me is the option-click that hides the window you're moving away from. Does anyone know how to disable that?
Release the option key before clicking?