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Navigating System Prefences/Settings on macOS
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Now that we know how to open them, can we interact too ? #4

Closed daguitosama closed 1 year ago

daguitosama commented 1 year ago

How can we interact with this settings via the cli ?

Firs't big thanks for documenting how to discover and open this settings, super helpful. But i can't help my self with curiosity, now that i know the setting key i will like to found out how can i interact with his value.

Let's say I will like to interact with a setting like x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.universalaccess?Audio. In his background_sounds sub panel will like to toggle the background_suonds switch:

Screenshot 2023-02-10 at 14 45 05

Any idea on how this might be posible ?

bvanpeski commented 1 year ago

I'd first file feedback with Apple requesting that particular item be controllable via MDM/configuration profile.

In theory, you could automate the toggling of that slider with Applescript (along with a PPPC Profile allowing the MDM executing said applescript access to Accessibility to allow GUI controls).

bvanpeski commented 1 year ago

FWIW you MAY be able to just create/write a plist to the user Preferences folder to configure it. At a cursory glance, it looks like those settings get stored in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ComfortSounds.plist

daguitosama commented 1 year ago

Big Thanks.

bvanpeski commented 1 year ago

Which means you can ALSO configure via a mobile config. Something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>PayloadContent</key>
 <array>
  <dict>
   <key>comfortSoundsEnabled</key>
   <true/>
   <key>ComfortSoundsSelectedSound</key>
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   <key>relativeVolume</key>
     <real>0.092183433473110199</real>
   <key>PayloadType</key>
   <string>com.apple.ComfortSounds</string>
   <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
     <string>com.apple.ComfortSounds.5D3D07C1-B9A8-49F2-A6C5-01E21864BB81</string>
   <key>PayloadUUID</key>
     <string>CE3249A8-51D7-4B4F-A77C-8F85B1C13330</string>
   <key>PayloadVersion</key>
   <integer>1</integer>
  </dict>
 </array>
 <key>PayloadDescription</key>
 <string>Enable Comfort Sounds</string>
 <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>
 <string>Comfort Sound Settings</string>
 <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
 <string>com.apple.ComfortSounds</string>
 <key>PayloadOrganization</key>
 <string>TEST</string>
 <key>PayloadRemovalDisallowed</key>
 <true/>
 <key>PayloadScope</key>
 <string>System</string>
 <key>PayloadType</key>
 <string>Configuration</string>
 <key>PayloadUUID</key>
 <string>04c17696-b0c4-46e6-9261-ea9f5c4bd643</string>
 <key>PayloadVersion</key>
 <integer>1</integer>
</dict>
</plist>