Jan 27, 2012 By default, when you open up a new Terminal window in Mac OS X the command prompt displays a relatively long name: I prefer to shorten this to a simple dollar sign ($) in order to free up space. To change your default command line prompt, follow these instructions: 1) Navigate to your home directory: cd 2) Create a file called.bashprofile. When you first get a Mac, you’ll find Apple has set all of the default apps for common file types: Safari for websites, Preview for pictures, etc. In most cases, these are fine, and you’ll be happy enough using them. But what if you want to change the default apps on your Mac. Today, in this article, we will be looking at the step by step guide for how to change Mac default programs from the ones that we prefer to use. Change Mac Default Calendar. This process will change your Mac’s default Calendar Application. From the Applications folder, open Calendar.
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Beware that disabling Lion's window animations (
defaults write -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
) will cause some applications to freeze if you open the dictionary/thesaurus panel (control-command-D). Many of these preferences can be controlled by GUI using Marcel Bresink's TinkerTool.
Lot's of ways to find hidden features :D
As I say in the hint, Secrets hasn't been updated for Lion.
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# 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
This alone justifies the hint!
# 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
This alone justifies the hint!
Oh, wow! This works!
(Not trying to sound like I didn't think it would, but I'm very happy to finally make Lion a little less helpful.)
A million thank you's for posting this.
(Not trying to sound like I didn't think it would, but I'm very happy to finally make Lion a little less helpful.)
A million thank you's for posting this.
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Thanks for the link. I scanned the list and right away found one that will immediately be written:
# Copy email addresses as `[email protected]` instead of `Foo Bar <[email protected]>` in Mail.app
I hated doing a copy and then finding that I'd have to remove extraneous characters.
# Copy email addresses as `[email protected]` instead of `Foo Bar <[email protected]>` in Mail.app
I hated doing a copy and then finding that I'd have to remove extraneous characters.
Excellent hint. And remember: it's a git repository (with more useful stuff, just click on the name 'dotfile' on top), so it is maintained, and it can be updated. So check for differences from time to time: you can see what changes were made to this document using the 'history' tab in the top right corner of the document.
If you want to see most if not ALL the commands available via the command line check out CLIX from rixstep (it's free) and beyond value if you want to learn (the command line).
As always with this type of thing, remember that one reason a feature might be unadvertised is that it is insufficiently tested and maybe even known to break something.