com.apple.dock params

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi,

The script:

do shell script "(defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; sleep 3; killall Dock)"

doesn’t seem to be working in this system. Does anyone know where you can get a list of the parameters (like no-glass) and their values?

Thanks,
kel

#2

Hello.

If they don’t reveal them selves with the defaults read command, maybe you could use the strings command onto the executable, to see what kind of strings it may accept?

Have a look at man strings.

#3

Hi McUsr,

Ok I’ll check that out.

Thanks and have a good day,
kel

#4

Hello.

There is another thing you can do for discovering default values, and that is to open the package of an app, and look for a userDefaults.plist, defaults.plist or similiar. If you find one of those, then you are in luck, as the keys is highly probable to be keys of the deaults values.

You can even try it out, by specifying the keys on the command line, before writing them to the defaults database, to see their effect during the run-time of an app. (The app should be closed before starting it up with the arguments.

Be sure not to save anything as you peruse one such property list file, asit may break your app if you manage to.