yannbertrand/macos-defaults
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Incomplete list of macOS `defaults` commands with demos ✨
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README.md
OriginalWelcome to macOS-defaults 👋
Stability: 2 - Stable
defaults commands allow you to programmatically set System Settings of your Mac. 🤖⚙️🔧
An up-to-date list of macOS defaults commands with demos. ✨
Add a command
Feel free to open an issue if you know an unlisted command.
It's also possible to add the command yourself by creating a Pull Request. Please take a look at the contribution guidelines.
How to discover a defaults command
Using this bash script (bash ./diff.sh), you'll be able to find out which key changed when you change a system or app settings.
After you find the key with your options, simply run defaults find ${keyname} to find the domain it is saved in.
macOS-defaults recorder 📷
Some screenshots and videos were recorded programmatically in the past. Take a look at the record folder in the project history to learn more about it.
macOS-defaults builder 🤖
This project used to help compare Static Site Generators (SSG). We now removed this part but you can still find an old comparison between a few of them (Docsify, Docusaurus, VuePress and GitHub markdown) in the project history.
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