MacOS – How to change the global stylesheet of Safari from the command line on OS X

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I am looking for a command line solution to change Safari default stylesheet.

This can be configured manually by going to Safari > Preferences > Advanced > Style sheets.

Still, I need this in order to be able to reconfigure a system or deploy the settings.

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I've set a stylesheet in Safari and these are the changes that occurred in Safari's plist:

UserStyleSheetEnabled = 1;
UserStyleSheetLocationURLString = "~/Desktop/dsa.css";
WebKitUserStyleSheetEnabledPreferenceKey = 1;
WebKitUserStyleSheetLocationPreferenceKey = "~/Desktop/dsa.css";

Your command line would be:

defaults write com.apple.safari UserStyleSheetEnabled 1 && defaults write com.apple.safari UserStyleSheetLocationURLString "/path/to/css" && defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitUserStyleSheetEnabledPreferenceKey 1 && defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitUserStyleSheetLocationPreferenceKey "/path/to/css"

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I spent some more time debugging this, and it seems there are multiple setting locations (on multiple hosts) for the same setting.

AFAICT, each user gets his own host. The login screen uses a separate host. It makes sense to enable some settings (like Trackpad tap to click) for both these hosts.

Furthermore, OS X seems to have separate settings for Magic Trackpads and built-in MacBook Trackpads. The commands in my question only enable the Magic Trackpad settings.

Now, I try to enable it everywhere:

# Map bottom right Trackpad corner to right-click
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadCornerSecondaryClick -int 2
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadRightClick -bool true
defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.trackpad.trackpadCornerClickBehavior -int 1
defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.trackpad.enableSecondaryClick -bool true

MacOS – Disable screensaver password requirement from command line

If you are not forced to use defaults write you can use the following command. It interacts with the OS the same as if you were to utilize System Preferences.

TESTED ON:

10.5.x
10.6.x
10.7.x
10.8.x
10.9.x

sudo osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set require password to wake of security preferences to false'

NOTE: If the command is being run inside of a script that has been given root privileges you would not need the sudo.

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set require password to wake of security preferences to false'

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