Confusion about System Preferences
Confusion about System Preferences
- Subject: Confusion about System Preferences
- From: Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 10:41:45 +0200
I am confused about the way system preferences are organized (or preferences in
general).
I read the man page of defaults(1), but it is still unclear to me what happens
when I do, for instance,
defaults -currentHost read com.apple.screensaver idleTime
as opposed to
defaults read com.apple.screensaver idleTime
I get different results in the two cases.
Yet, the System Preferences GUI shows me only the value I get from
"currentHost",
and that is also the idle time after which the screensaver on my laptop gets
launched by macOS,
so it seems to be he only value I should care about.
So, what is the significance of the value of the version without "currentHost" ?
When is it important?
Thanks a lot for all insights.
Best regards, Gabriel
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