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I’d love to have a settings.json and/or a good API for changing system settings. Something like VS Code has. Currently I’m ductaping together crappy solutions

I’d love to have a settings.json and/or a good API for changing system settings. Something like VS Code has. Currently I’m ductaping together crappy solutions with Hammerspoon and shell scripts to change the default browser or change screen resolutions. I’ve always assumed this situation is better on Linux and *nix systems, but is that so?

vbezhenar 4y ago
Most gnome settings are beyond regedit-like cli, so you can script stuff.
kergonath 4y ago
> I’d love to have a settings.json and/or a good API for changing system settings. You are supposed to use defaults, which is the command-line tool to set preferences. There are APIs in Objective-C, and I would assume in Swift. https://ss64.com/osx/defaults.html https://ss64.com/osx/defaults.html