Michael Dorner
Steve Troughton-SmithHere's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:
defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO
It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize
/cc @gruber
Machiel@stroughtonsmith @gruber so much cleaner love it
NMDoernerFINALLY!
Thank you!
That is the only way to use the main menu in #macOS 26 "BrokenGlass"!
What a mess that version is, crazy really.
Captain Salem@stroughtonsmith @gruber Thank you. Still hate Tahoe though but this helps.
Dmian 🇪🇺@stroughtonsmith Can't thank you enough... 🙇♂️
olof hennig@stroughtonsmith @gruber wonderful. If only they could bring back dock pinning.
QuarterSwede@stroughtonsmith @gruber Much less visually overloaded and just plain easier/quicker to scan.
John Gruber@stroughtonsmith How in the world did this go undiscovered until now?
lookmark@gruber @stroughtonsmith Just Finder, though, huh
ben
hyperjeff
Patrick Seemann@stroughtonsmith @gruber awesome.
PS: Some applications seem to be unimpressed by this, e.g. iTerm.
gcanyon@stroughtonsmith @gruber Doesn't seem to have an effect on Safari? So far everything else works.
Stefan Hecht
Chris Messina@stroughtonsmith @gruber just added a script to Raycast so you can toggle your menu icons at will!
Norbert Heger@chrismessina @stroughtonsmith @gruber Here you can also find a LaunchBar action for toggling menu icons. Have fun!
Gregory@stroughtonsmith @gruber heh, another case of Apple engineer rebellion. I like it. The previous one was where you could bring back the sensible (pre-Big Sur) layout of NSAlerts with a defaults write command. They did remove it eventually.
(I myself am staying on Sonoma for now)
enMTW@stroughtonsmith do you have a collection of 'fix Tahoe' defaults writes (and things like that)?
toniwonkanobi2@stroughtonsmith @gruber Seems like this only works for Finder? 😭
@toniwonkanobi2 @stroughtonsmith You need to quit and relaunch apps to see it take effect.
@gruber @stroughtonsmith tried it, and it doesn’t work in Safari at least. Will try more when I get back to my Mac
jasonjahnkefilms@stroughtonsmith @gruber for someone who doesn't ever use Terminal, do you just copy and paste that into a terminal window and it should work? a "terminal for dummies" How-To would be appreciated!
@jasonjahnkefilms @gruber the quick answer is yes (and then log out or restart your Mac), but the /right/ answer is you should never paste commands into a Terminal unless you know what they're gonna do!
@stroughtonsmith @gruber haha absolutely. thats why I paused and thought I should ask!
@jasonjahnkefilms @stroughtonsmith You can read a good intro to the MacOS `defaults` command here:
@gruber @stroughtonsmith Thanks John!
@stroughtonsmith @jasonjahnkefilms With some commands you need to log out/in for them to take effect, but with this one for menu item icons, you just need to quit/relaunch apps for it to take effect.
Andreas Hartl@stroughtonsmith @jasonjahnkefilms @gruber
As for the „know what they do“: depending on the command, this requires knowledge of the unix underpinnings of macOS and what various commands do can vary extremely.
In my tests ChatGPT provides good answers for the prompt „What does this command do?
defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO“ but malicious actors could poison LLM results. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
The Peter Pan of Nerdery™@stroughtonsmith @mrola @gruber Now: how do I change the system font globally, and/or increase the font size of notifications without changing the screen resolution?