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mathiasbynens / dotfiles

:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
https://mths.be/dotfiles
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Are the macOS defaults sane for Ventura as well? #1039

Open purezen opened 1 year ago

purezen commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the amazing dotfiles project!

I used the project when I used a macbook many years back. Now I have got a macbook again and would like to know if the project is still maintained.

My main concern is the macos defaults, if they are compatible with Ventura.

Please tell. Thanks!

stratofax commented 1 year ago

I just recently modified the .macos script to configure an older MacBook Pro running Catalina. Since at least Catalina, access to com.apple.universalaccess is restricted and will result in an error message:

Could not write domain com.apple.universalaccess; exiting

This issue is tracked here: "Could not write domain com.apple.universalaccess; exiting" error in macOS Monterey · Issue #1027 · mathiasbynens/dotfiles

Resolution

Comment out (or delete) lines that attempt to write to universal access, like this:

# defaults write com.apple.universalaccess reduceTransparency -bool true

Note that using sudo will not resolve this issue.

I did find this one discussion that suggests using a UI AppleScript to get around this restriction, but I don't want to do that, either.

Here's the thread: Changing Universal Access preferences - AppleScript - Late Night Software Ltd.. I haven't tried any of the suggestions, though.

stratofax commented 1 year ago

Another possible resolution mentioned elsewhere, that I unfortunately haven't had a chance to test yet on Catalina, is to grant your terminal app (e.g. Terminal.app, iTerm2, Alacritty, Kitty) Full Disk Access: System Preferences, Privacy, Full Disk Access