Plurl Examples

General Hints

Quit any affected applications before making changes.
Restart the affected application and/or re-login to see changes.
Other tools and sources of information for changing a particular setting are listed after each example. I especially recommend www.macosxhints.com.

Appearance

Place scroll arrows one at each end, two at top, two at bottom, or two at both ends of scroll bars
(macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Invert / Restore screen colors (requires re-login)
(macosxhints)

Change the font antialiasing threshold (10.2 or later)
(macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Disable / Enable anti-aliased fonts
(macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Make rulers measure in inches, centimeters, points, or picas
(macosxhints)

Dock

Disable / Enable automatic hiding of the Dock

Position the dock at the top, bottom, left, or right of the screen
(macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Pin the dock to the start, center, or end of its screen row or column
(TinkerTool)

Minimize with the genie, scale, or suck effect
(macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Disable / Enable hidden applications as transparent icons
(TinkerTool)

Disable / Enable special highlighting of the foreground application
(MacOSRumors)

Finder

Disable / Enable the Quit menu item
(macosxhints, TinkerTool, Cocktail)

Show / Hide hidden files
(macosxhints, macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Disable / Enable window zoom rectangles
(macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Disable / Enable snap-to-grid animation

Disable / Enable the column-view preview panel
(TinkerTool)

Disable / Enable the column-view right-facing arrows
(TinkerTool)

Disable / Enable icons in column view
(TinkerTool)

Set the maximum number of label lines
(macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Replace the Finder with another program
(macosxhints)

Miscellany

AddressBook: Autodetect your Bluetooth phone
(macosxhints)

AddressBook: Disable / Enable the Debug menu
(macosxhints)

Disk Copy: Disable / Enable expert mode
(macosxhints)

DVD Player: Disable / Enable full-quality Dolby audio output
(and disable / enable the display of this preference)
(macosxhints)

DVD Player: Disable / Enable debugging items in the Window menu
(macosxhints)

iMovie3: Turn off the Ken Burns effect
(macosxhints)

Installer: Follow / Overwrite symbolic links (10.2 or later)
(macosxhints)

iPhoto: Change / Restore the default library location
(macosxhints)

Mail: Avoid receiving duplicate emails
(macosxhints)

Mail: Display messages in plain text / styled text
(macosxhints)

Mail: Retain sent messages for a specified number of days
(macosxhints)

Mail: Change the GPG hash algorithm
(macosxhints)

OmniWeb: Disable / Enable cascading windows
(macosxhints)

Project Builder: Change the error coloring scheme
(macosxhints)

Project Builder: Set __myCompanyName__ for each new file created
(macosxhints)

Safari: Disable / Enable the Debug menu
(macosxhints)

Terminal: Disable / Enable option-click to move cursor
(macosxhints)

X11: Disable / Enable the quit warning dialog
(macosxhints)

Obsolete in 10.2 or later

Change the screenshot file type to JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or PICT (10.1 only?)
(macosxhints, macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Terminal: Change the window transparency (0.0 means fully transparent, 1.0 means fully opaque; does not work in 10.2)
(macosxhints, macosxhints, TinkerTool)

Not yet supported in Plurl 1.x

Internet Config: Change the default web search page (10.2 only)
(macosxhints)

Create a universal shortcut key to most preference dialogs
(macosxhints)

Modify shortcut keys
(macosxhints, macosxhints)

Make names of desktop icons appear in black or white
(macosxhints)

Print Center: Remove PDF presets
(macosxhints)

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