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apple stuff - OS X hacks was created/last modified on Mon 22 Mar 2004 4:47 PM

Terminal-Tips: Command line defaults

All these hacks require a restart of the affected application to make the changes visible.
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To disable outlines around icon names on the desktop:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain Desktop.HasDarkBackground 0

To enable outlines around icon names at the desktop:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain Desktop.HasDarkBackground 1

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Highlight active application with blue array in dock:

defaults write com.apple.dock showforeground true

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Change the translucency of the Terminal window :

defaults write com.apple.Terminal TerminalOpaqueness 0.8

the "0.8" refers to 80% translucency.

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To enable Finder Zoom Rectangles at the MacOS X Desktop:

defaults write com.apple.finder ZoomRects true

To disable Finder ZoomRectangles:

defaults write com.apple.finder ZoomRects false

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To see all the hidden files and directories:

defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles TRUE

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