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OSX For Hackers | Hacker News echo "Enable subpixel font rendering on non-Apple LCDs"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

#!/usr/bin/env sh ## # This is script with usefull tips taken from: # https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx # # install it: # curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh # echo "Enable full keyboard access for all controls (e.g. enable Tab in modal dialogs)" defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleKeyboardUIMode -int 3 echo "Enable subpixel font rendering on non-Apple LCDs" defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2 echo "Enable the 2D Dock" defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -bool true # Automatically hide and show the Dock # defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true echo "Make Dock icons of hidden applications translucent" defaults write com.apple.dock showhidden -bool true echo "Enable iTunes track notifications in the Dock" defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool true # Disable menu bar transparency defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleEnableMenuBarTransparency -bool false # Show remaining battery time; hide percentage # defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowPercent -string "NO" # defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowTime -string "YES" # echo "Always show scrollbars" # defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Auto" echo "Allow quitting Finder via ⌘ + Q; doing so will also hide desktop icons" defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true # Disable window animations and Get Info animations in Finder # defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true echo "Show all filename extensions in Finder" defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowAllExtensions -bool true echo "Use current directory as default search scope in Finder" defaults write com.apple.finder FXDefaultSearchScope -string "SCcf" echo "Show Path bar in Finder" defaults write com.apple.finder ShowPathbar -bool true echo "Show Status bar in Finder" defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true echo "Expand save panel by default" defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true echo "Expand print panel by default" defaults write NSGlobalDomain PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool true echo "Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog" defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false echo "Disable shadow in screenshots" defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true echo "Enable highlight hover effect for the grid view of a stack (Dock)" defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -bool true echo "Enable spring loading for all Dock items" defaults write enable-spring-load-actions-on-all-items -bool true echo "Show indicator lights for open applications in the Dock" defaults write com.apple.dock show-process-indicators -bool true # Don’t animate opening applications from the Dock # defaults write com.apple.dock launchanim -bool false echo "Display ASCII control characters using caret notation in standard text views" # Try e.g. `cd /tmp; unidecode "\x{0000}" > cc.txt; open -e cc.txt` defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSTextShowsControlCharacters -bool true echo "Disable press-and-hold for keys in favor of key repeat" defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false echo "Set a blazingly fast keyboard repeat rate" defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0.02 echo "Set a shorter Delay until key repeat" defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 12 echo "Disable auto-correct" defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool false # Disable opening and closing window animations # defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false echo "Enable AirDrop over Ethernet and on unsupported Macs running Lion" defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces -bool true echo "Disable disk image verification" defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify -bool true defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify-locked -bool true defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify-remote -bool true echo "Automatically open a new Finder window when a volume is mounted" defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages auto-open-ro-root -bool true defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages auto-open-rw-root -bool true defaults write com.apple.finder OpenWindowForNewRemovableDisk -bool true echo "Display full POSIX path as Finder window title" defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool true # Increase window resize speed for Cocoa applications defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001 echo "Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes" defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true echo "Disable the warning when changing a file extension" defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false echo "Show item info below desktop icons" /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :DesktopViewSettings:IconViewSettings:showItemInfo true" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist echo "Enable snap-to-grid for desktop icons" /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :DesktopViewSettings:IconViewSettings:arrangeBy grid" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist echo "Disable the warning before emptying the Trash" defaults write com.apple.finder WarnOnEmptyTrash -bool false # Empty Trash securely by default # defaults write com.apple.finder EmptyTrashSecurely -bool true echo "Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins" defaults write com.apple.screensaver askForPassword -int 1 defaults write com.apple.screensaver askForPasswordDelay -int 0 echo "Enable tap to click (Trackpad)" defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad Clicking -bool true echo "Map bottom right Trackpad corner to right-click" defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadCornerSecondaryClick -int 2 defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadRightClick -bool true echo "Disable Safari’s thumbnail cache for History and Top Sites" defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2 echo "Enable Safari’s debug menu" defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu -bool true echo "Make Safari’s search banners default to Contains instead of Starts With" defaults write com.apple.Safari FindOnPageMatchesWordStartsOnly -bool false # Remove useless icons from Safari’s bookmarks bar # defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar "()" echo "Add a context menu item for showing the Web Inspector in web views" defaults write NSGlobalDomain WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true echo "Only use UTF-8 in Terminal.app" defaults write com.apple.terminal StringEncodings -array 4 echo "Disable the Ping sidebar in iTunes" defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePingSidebar -bool true echo "Disable all the other Ping stuff in iTunes" defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePing -bool true echo "Make ⌘ + F focus the search input in iTunes" defaults write com.apple.iTunes NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Target Search Field" "@F" # Disable send and reply animations in Mail.app # defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true # defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool true # Disable Resume system-wide # defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false echo "Disable the “reopen windows when logging back in” option" # This works, although the checkbox will still appear to be checked. defaults write com.apple.loginwindow TALLogoutSavesState -bool false defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowLaunchesRelaunchApps -bool false echo "Enable Dashboard dev mode (allows keeping widgets on the desktop)" defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode -bool true echo "Reset Launchpad" [ -e ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ] && rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db echo "Show the ~/Library folder" chflags nohidden ~/Library echo "Disable local Time Machine backups" hash tmutil &> /dev/null && sudo tmutil disablelocal echo "Remove Dropbox’s green checkmark icons in Finder" file=/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/check.icns [ -e "$file" ] && mv -f "$file" "$file.bak" unset file #Fix for the ancient UTF-8 bug in QuickLook (http://mths.be/bbo) # Commented out, as this is known to cause problems when saving files in Adobe Illustrator CS5 :( #echo "0x08000100:0" > ~/.CFUserTextEncoding echo "Kill affected applications" for app in Safari Finder Dock Mail SystemUIServer; do killall "$app" >/dev/null 2>&1; done