[MacTUG] macOS defaults list
Marlon A Griffith
m3griffi at engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Oct 26 15:31:02 EDT 2023
I have seen a version of this previously. Not sure if it is the same.
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Incomplete list of macOS defaults commands with demos ✨
🙋 What's a defaults command?
macOS applications and other programs use the defaults system to record
user preferences and other information to be maintained when the
application isn't running (font for new documents, or the position of an
Info panel). Much of this information is accessible through an
application's Preferences panel but sometimes they're hidden.
User defaults belong to domains, which typically correspond to
individual applications. Applications, system services, and other
programs have their own domains, they also share a domain named
NSGlobalDomain. If a default isn't specified in the application's
domain, it may be specified in NSGlobalDomain.
Each domain has a dictionary of keys and values representing its
defaults; e.g. "Default Font" = "Helvetica". Keys are strings, values
can be complex data structures comprising arrays, dictionaries, strings,
and binary data. They're stored as XML Property List.
The defaults command line interface is a way to interact with these values.
Source: Real-World-Systems
https://macos-defaults.com/
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