macOS-Mojave-fixes.md

Fixing macOS Mojave

Dark main menu without the rest of dark mode

1. Set Light mode
2. defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes
3. Log out and log back in
4. Set Dark mode

Disable floating screenshot thumbnail

1. Open Screenshot.app
2. Click "options" at the bottom of the screen
3. Uncheck "Show Floating Thumbnail"

Screenshots in Dropbox without messing with the clipboard

• For single-dropbox installations:
  defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/rsms/Dropbox/Screenshots
• For multi-dropbox installations:
  defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "'/Users/rsms/Dropbox (Figma)/Screenshots'"
  (double quotations needed for defaults to be able to parse the path string)

Disable audible chime when plugging into power

defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnNoHardware -bool true && killall PowerChime

Set display to integer scale

Many recently made MacBooks comes with macOS preset to a non-integer scaling factor. This causes issues if you are to do any design work on the computer (i.e. pixels won't be scaled evenly and things will look a little blurry in certain situations.) Fix this by:

1. Apple ▶︎ Hold ALT key and select System Information... ▶︎ Hardware, Graphics/Displays ▶︎ Read the "Resolution" value of your display
2. Apple ▶︎ System Preferences ▶︎ Dispays ▶︎ Displays tab ▶︎ Hold ALT key and click on "Resolution: Scaled" ▶︎ Hover over each "scale thumbnail" and look at the "Looks like XXxYY" number on the left. Pick the resolution that is either the same (1x) or half (2x) of the value you read in System Information.