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

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.<p>Expanded save/load panel by default is awesome, though. So thanks!

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.<p>[1] <a href="http://secrets.blacktree.com/" rel="nofollow">http://secrets.blacktree.com/</a>

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).<p>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.

another useful one to avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes:<p><pre><code> defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true</code></pre>

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?

If anybody else ran into the problem on OS X Lion where, even after turning on devmode on the Dashboard, you couldn't get widgets to show up on the desktop: first go to the Mission Control preference pane and uncheck "Show Dashboard as a space". Took me a while to figure that out.

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

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.

I disable resume for Quicktime Player as well (I find it even more annoying than Preview):<p><pre><code> defaults write com.apple.QuicktimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false</code></pre>

OS X keyboard is so slow for me, so I set this one<p><pre><code> defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0 </code></pre> To make it blasting fast almost like in Linux (Gnome).

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

Is there a way to disable that awful grey-blue void at the top of every webpage in Safari, that the bounce-scroll resorts to on an overshot?

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 ...

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.

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

The Mac Kung Fu book from Pragmatic Bookshelf describes lots of hidden defaults settings. <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu" rel="nofollow">http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu</a>

Hey, here's mine why not: <a href="https://github.com/richtaur/dotfiles/blob/master/osx_setup.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/richtaur/dotfiles/blob/master/osx_setup.m...</a>

Just wish I could figure out how to disable the damn Spaces/Mission Control 'swoosh' switch animation like you could in Leopard :(

What gets me is the option-click that hides the window you're moving away from. Does anyone know how to disable that?

Is there also a setting to make a current-gen MBA wake up reliably from deep sleep?

I always used this to enable horizontal buttons for iTunes in favor of the odd vertical buttons.<p>defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

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

does<p><pre><code> defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false </code></pre> work as well? This feature is infuriating and buggy.