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How can OS X be customised?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 628067" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>That's probably true to an extent. Apple doesn't provide "GUI" tools to make a number of changes to the OS that otherwise can be done. Let's take the Dock, for example. Nowhere in the Dock's menu or elsewhere in the OS can you find an option to anchor the Dock to a corner. Normally you can only have it "in the middle" on one of the four sides. Many people use a 3rd-party utility like TinkerTool to make the Dock anchor to the corner, myself because I like having the Trash can in one spot. But all TinkerTool does is modify the Dock's preference file to tell it to anchor in the corner. You "can" do that yourself using TextEdit... just find the right pref file, find the right string, and make the appropriate change. There are a great many things that can be done that way, but using 3rd-party utilities that do it for you is far simpler. The OS is riddled with undocumented features/options that are accessible if you know what yer doing. The little trick I mentioned earlier to put the full date in the menu bar is another example of this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 628067, member: 38864"] That's probably true to an extent. Apple doesn't provide "GUI" tools to make a number of changes to the OS that otherwise can be done. Let's take the Dock, for example. Nowhere in the Dock's menu or elsewhere in the OS can you find an option to anchor the Dock to a corner. Normally you can only have it "in the middle" on one of the four sides. Many people use a 3rd-party utility like TinkerTool to make the Dock anchor to the corner, myself because I like having the Trash can in one spot. But all TinkerTool does is modify the Dock's preference file to tell it to anchor in the corner. You "can" do that yourself using TextEdit... just find the right pref file, find the right string, and make the appropriate change. There are a great many things that can be done that way, but using 3rd-party utilities that do it for you is far simpler. The OS is riddled with undocumented features/options that are accessible if you know what yer doing. The little trick I mentioned earlier to put the full date in the menu bar is another example of this. [/QUOTE]
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