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Deep Configs .osx

Warn! from here, weird thingy happened :)

used keywords:

Disable the sound effects on boot

Disable transparency in the menu bar and elsewhere on Yosemite

Set highlight color to green

Set sidebar icon size to medium

Increase window resize speed for Cocoa applications

Expand save panel by default

Save to disk (not to iCloud) by default

Automatically quit printer app once the print jobs complete

Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog

Remove duplicates in the “Open With” menu

Display ASCII control characters using caret notation in standard text views

Disable Resume system-wide

Set Help Viewer windows to non-floating mode

Restart automatically if the computer freeze

Check for software updates daily, not just once per week

Disable Notification Center and remove the menu bar icon

Disable smart quotes as they’re annoying when typing code

Disable smart dashes as they’re annoying when typing code

Disable local Time Machine snapshots

Disable hibernation

Remove the sleep image file to save disk space

Disable the sudden motion sensor as it’s not useful for SSDs

Trackpad: enable tap to click for this user and for the login screen

Trackpad: map bottom right corner to right-click

Increase sound quality for Bluetooth headphones/headsets

Enable full keyboard access for all controls

Disable press-and-hold for keys in favor of key repeat

Set a blazingly fast keyboard repeat rate

Disable auto-correct

Stop iTunes from responding to the keyboard media keys

Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins

Save screenshots to

Save screenshots in PNG format

Finder: allow quitting via ⌘ + Q

Show icons for hard drives, servers, and removable media on the desktop

Finder: show hidden files by default

Finder: show all filename extensions

Finder: show status bar

Finder: show path bar

Display full POSIX path as Finder window title

When performing a search, search the current folder by default

Disable the warning when changing a file extension

Enable spring loading for directories

Remove the spring loading delay for directories

Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes

Automatically open a new Finder window when a volume is mounted

Show item info near icons on the desktop and in other icon views

Show item info to the right of the icons on the desktop

Enable snap-to-grid for icons on the desktop and in other icon views

Increase grid spacing for icons on the desktop and in other icon views

Increase the size of icons on the desktop and in other icon views

Use list view in all Finder windows by default

Enable AirDrop over Ethernet and on unsupported Macs running Lion

Show the ~/Library folder

Expand the following File Info panes: “General”, “Open with”, and “Sharing & Permissions”

Disable Dashboard

Don’t show Dashboard as a Space

Don’t automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use

Remove the auto-hiding Dock delay

Remove the animation when hiding/showing the Dock

Automatically hide and show the Dock

Make Dock icons of hidden applications translucent

Disable the Launchpad gesture

Reset Launchpad, but keep the desktop wallpaper intact

Privacy: don’t send search queries to Apple

Press Tab to highlight each item on a web page

Show the full URL in the address bar

Allow hitting the Backspace key to go to the previous page in history

Hide Safari’s bookmarks bar by default

Hide Safari’s sidebar in Top Sites

Disable Safari’s thumbnail cache for History and Top Sites

Only use UTF-8 in Terminal.app

Prevent Time Machine from prompting to use new hard drives as backup volume

Show the main window when launching Activity Monitor

Visualize CPU usage in the Activity Monitor Dock icon

Show all processes in Activity Monitor

Sort Activity Monitor results by CPU usage

Allow installing user scripts via GitHub Gist or Userscripts.org

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