UK website MacOSXTips has put together a list of 15 of their favorite command line preferences tricks. The tricks, which all use the defaults command, range from deactivating Dashboard, to showing hidden files in the Finder, to displaying all mail as plain text. I had a blast rediscovering some old preferences tricks and learning some new ones.Want to drag a file to another folder and copy it instead of moving it? Press the Option key when you drag that file and it'll be duplicated rather than moved entirely.
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Majd said 10:10PM on 3-20-2007
Anyone familiar with how to change the zindex of the widgets on the desktop? the trick makes them always on top
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artifex said 10:19PM on 3-20-2007
huge amount, or huge number? :)
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Nate LaCourse said 2:25AM on 3-21-2007
Not a CLI hack, but...
Psychedelicize!
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