Change the default search scope

Change the default folder shown in Finder windows. "Other" corresponds to the value of NewWindowTargetPath

Show only open applications in the Dock

Whether to automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use

Whether to allow quitting of the Finder

Show recent applications in the dock

Set the day to start week on in the Calendar

Size of the icons in the dock

If enabled (the default), checks for data type mismatches and that Nix can parse the generated nix.conf.

Scroll up on a Dock icon to show all Space's opened windows for an app, or open stack

Change the default finder view. "icnv" = Icon view, "Nlsv" = List view, "clmv" = Column View, "Flwv" = Gallery View The default is icnv.

Whether to automatically hide and show the dock

Show the day of the week

Show the AM/PM label

Whether to group windows by application in Mission Control's Exposé

Whether to enable drag lock

When enabled, the clock indicator (which by default is the colon) will flash on and off each second

Show a 24-hour clock, instead of a 12-hour clock

Show the day of the month

Comma-separated list of language codes to prefer for cask installation

Show an analog clock instead of a digital one

Show the full date

Show path breadcrumbs in finder windows

Whether to always show hidden files

Magnified icon size on hover

Whether to use expanded save panel by default

Whether to use expanded save panel by default

Whether to autohide the menu bar

Set the minimize/maximize window effect

Sets the speed of the autohide delay

Show status bar at bottom of finder windows with item/disk space stats

Controls the routing table to which routes are added

Set of default packages that aren't strictly necessary for a running system, entries can be removed for a more minimal NixOS installation

Whether to show the full POSIX filepath in the window title

Auto hide stage strip showing recent apps

Whether to show icons on the desktop or not

Allow for slow-motion minimize effect while holding Shift key

Keep folders on top when sorting by name

Show the clock with second precision, instead of minutes

Remove items in the trash after 30 days

The default Nix expression search path, used by the Nix evaluator to look up paths enclosed in angle brackets (e.g. <nixpkgs>)

Whether to use the expanded print panel by default

Animate opening applications from the Dock

Whether to use the expanded print panel by default

Turn on time zone support

Whether to make icons of hidden applications tranclucent

Whether to always show hidden files

Whether to enable tap to drag

Whether to enable tap to click

If set, the pkgs argument to all nix-darwin modules is the value of this option, extended with nixpkgs.overlays, if that is also set

Whether to save new documents to iCloud by default

Whether to show hard disks on desktop

The user's home directory

Default layout for the root container.

Position of the dock on screen

Resize columns to fit filenames

Whether to hide Dashboard as a Space

Whether to use the metric system

Show calendar list

Sets the speed speed of window resizing

The default prefix of the service label

Sets the URI to open when NewWindowTarget is "Other"

Whether to use 24-hour or 12-hour time

Whether to enable two-finger pinch gesture for zooming in and out

Defines the interval length, in seconds, between new jobs check

Whether to enable haptic feedback

Sets the speed of the animation when hiding/showing the Dock

Which column to sort the main activity page (such as "CPUUsage")

Enable spring loading for all Dock items

Whether to enable two-finger rotation gesture

Chooses what happens when you press the Fn key on the keyboard

Keep folders on top when sorting by name on the desktop

Open the main window when opening Activity Monitor

Whether to enable the focus ring animation

Whether to enable the press-and-hold feature

Enable dragging windows to screen edges to tile them

Whether to enable four-finger spread gesture to show the Desktop

Change the icon in the dock when running.

• 0: Application Icon
• 2: Network Usage
• 3: Disk Activity
• 5: CPU Usage
• 6: CPU History Default is null.

Whether to always show file extensions

Show indicator lights for open applications in the Dock

Whether to enable trackpad right click (two-finger tap/click)

Enable dragging windows to the menu bar to fill the screen

Target location for Applications

Apple menu > System Preferences > Mission Control

Displays have separate Spaces (note a logout is required before this setting will take effect).

false = each physical display has a separate space (Mac default) true = one space spans across all physical displays

Whether to show connected servers on desktop

Sets the window tabbing when opening a new document: 'manual', 'always', or 'fullscreen'

The set of packages that appear in /run/current-system/sw

Whether to disable force click

Sets the size of the finder sidebar icons: 1 (small), 2 (medium) or 3 (large)

Hostname to use for NetBIOS.

Whether to enable three-finger drag

Sets the speed of the Mission Control animations

Configures the keyboard control behavior

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

Auto login the supplied user on boot

Whether to enable trackpad gestures (three- or four-finger vertical swipe) to show App Exposé

For normal click: 0 for light clicking, 1 for medium, 2 for firm

Whether to show external disks on desktop

Magnify icon on hover

Whether to always upgrade casks listed in homebrew.casks regardless of whether it's unversioned or it updates itself

Whether to enable moving window by holding anywhere on it like on Linux

Whether to enable quarantine for downloaded applications

Whether to show removable media (CDs, DVDs and iPods) on desktop

Set the spring loading delay for directories

Default orientation for the root container.

The sort direction of the sort column (0 is decending)

Enable window margins when tiling windows

Whether to enable four-finger pinch gesture to show the Launchpad

Configures the trackpad tracking speed (0 to 3)

For force touch: 0 for light clicking, 1 for medium, 2 for firm

Whether to minimize windows into their application icon

Whether to show all file extensions in Finder

0 to enable Silent Clicking, 1 to disable

Enable Stage Manager Stage Manager arranges your recent windows into a single strip for reduced clutter and quick access

The Homebrew prefix directory, i.e., the value that brew --prefix returns

Target location for Fonts

If true, the user is prompted for a password when the screen saver is unlocked or stopped

Whether to display the appswitcher on all displays or only the main one

Whether to use inertia when scrolling

Whether or not to switch to a workspace that has a window of the application open, that is switched to

By default data is only periodically persisted to disk, enable this option to use an append-only file for improved persistence.

Whether to enable smooth scrolling

Defines how users authenticate themselves to the server

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

Allow users to login to the machine as guests using the Guest account

Whether to show warnings when change the file extension of files

Whether to use Celsius or Fahrenheit

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

Hides the Sleep button on the login screen

Change which processes to show.

• 100: All Processes
• 101: All Processes, Hierarchally
• 102: My Processes
• 103: System Processes
• 104: Other User Processes
• 105: Active Processes
• 106: Inactive Processes
• 107: Windowed Processes Default is 100.

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

Hides the Shut Down button on the login screen

Whether to enable the startup chime

Jump to the spot that's clicked on the scroll bar

Whether to enable Homebrew to generate lockfiles when you manually invoke brew bundle [install]

Whether to enable trackpad gestures (three- or four-finger vertical swipe) to show Mission Control

Whether to enable three-finger tap gesture: 0 to disable, 2 to trigger Look up & data detectors

Whether to use centimeters (metric) or inches (US, UK) as the measurement unit

Whether to enable smart zoom when double-tapping with two fingers

Nix daemon process resource limits class

Apple menu > System Preferences > Control Center > AirDrop

Show a AirDrop control in menu bar

Apple menu > System Preferences > Control Center > Sound

Show a sound control in menu bar

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

Hides the Restart button on the login screen

This option defines the maximum number of jobs that Nix will try to build in parallel

Whether to enable Apple's built-in OpenSSH server

Whether to display ASCII control characters using caret notation in standard text views

Disables the ability for a user to access the console by typing “>console” for a username at the login window

Set icon and widget style

To set to default mode, set this to null and you'll need to manually run defaults delete -g AppleIconAppearanceTheme

Enables swiping left or right with two fingers to navigate backward or forward

Disable drop shadow border around screencaptures

Text to be shown on the login window

Whether to link the formula to the Homebrew prefix

Target to which screencapture should save screenshot to

Whether to enable four-finger horizontal swipe gesture: 0 to disable, 2 to swipe between full-screen applications

Apple menu > System Preferences > Control Center > Focus

Show a Focus control in menu bar

This key lets one override the default throttling policy imposed on jobs by launchd

Show thumbnail after screencapture before writing to file

Apple menu > System Preferences > Control Center > Display

Show a Screen Brightness control in menu bar

Include date and time in screenshot filenames

Enables swiping left or right with two fingers to navigate backward or forward

Whether to enable Homebrew to auto-update itself and all formulae during nix-darwin system activation

Whether to enable secondary click: 0 to disable, 1 to set bottom-left corner, 2 to set bottom-right corner

Whether to enable four-finger pinch gesture (spread shows the Desktop, pinch shows the Launchpad): 0 to disable, 2 to enable

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

Disables the "Shutdown" option when users are logged in

Whether to enable trackpad secondary click

Whether to enable three-finger horizontal swipe gesture: 0 to disable, 1 to swipe between pages, 2 to swipe between full-screen applications

Apple menu > System Preferences > Control Center > Now Playing

Show a Now Playing control in menu bar

Whether to enable two-finger swipe-from-right-edge gesture: 0 to disable, 3 to open Notification Center

This key lets one override the default throttling policy imposed on jobs by launchd

Click wallpaper to reveal desktop Clicking your wallpaper will move all windows out of the way to allow access to your desktop items and widgets

Enable holding alt to tile windows

This key lets one override the default throttling policy imposed on jobs by launchd

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

If set to true, the Power Off menu item will be disabled when the user is logged in

Remember the selection window of the last screencapture

The set of system-wide known SSH hosts

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

Disables the “Restart” option when users are logged in

The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of this host

Whether to enable three-finger vertical swipe gesture (down for Mission Control, up for App Exposé): 0 to disable, 2 to enable

Apple menu > System Preferences > Control Center > Bluetooth

Show a bluetooth control in menu bar

Apple menu > System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Options

Displays login window as a name and password field instead of a list of users

A list of names of users (separated by whitespace) that are allowed to connect to the Nix daemon

Whether to enable wipe the builder's filesystem on every restart

If enabled (the default), Nix will only download binaries from binary caches if they are cryptographically signed with any of the keys listed in nix.settings.trusted-public-keys

Target location for Services

Whether to enable inline predictive text

Whether to animate opening and closing of windows and popovers

Enable highlight hover effect for the grid view of a stack in the Dock.

0 to disable four finger vertical swipe gestures, 2 to enable (down for Mission Control, up for App Exposé)

Additional arguments passed to each module in addition to ones like lib, config, and pkgs, modulesPath

This optional key is used to control whether your job is launched once at the time the job is loaded

The port the server should listen on

List of public keys used to sign binary caches

Set the size of cursor. 1 for normal, 4 for maximum

A list of permissible login shells for user accounts

Whether to enable automatic spelling correction

Whether to enable smart dash substitution

Working directory, available as $GITHUB_WORKSPACE during workflow runs and used as a default for repository checkouts

By default, nix-darwin will check that programs

Specifies the platform on which nix-darwin should be built

Every once in a while, a new nix-darwin release may change configuration defaults in a way incompatible with stateful data

Apple menu > System Preferences > Control Center > Battery

Show a battery percentage in menu bar

Whether to enable smart quote substitution

The recommended idle time out (in seconds) to pass to the job

Whether to require casks to have a checksum

Whether to set NIX_PATH to include nixpkgs=flake:nixpkgs such that <nixpkgs> lookups receive the version of nixpkgs that the system was built with, in concert with nixpkgs.flake.setFlakeRegistry

Follow the keyboard focus while zoomed in

Use scroll gesture with the Ctrl (^) modifier key to zoom

Contents of sketchybar's configuration file

Whether to disable linking of helper executables

This optional key is used to control whether your job is launched once at the time the job is loaded

The DHCP client identifier to use when requesting an IP address from a DHCP server

The amount of time launchd waits before sending a SIGKILL signal

This optional key is used to control whether your job is launched once at the time the job is loaded

Extra labels in addition to the default (unless disabled through the noDefaultLabels option)

Target location for Preference Panes

Target location for QuickLook Plugins

Whether to enable smart period substitution

Persistent applications, spacers, files, and folders in the dock.

Hide items in Stage Manager.

Name of the runner group to add this runner to (defaults to the default runner group)

The path to the nixpkgs sources used to build the system

The data directory for PostgreSQL

An application to be added to the dock.

The set of system-wide known SSH hosts

The recommended idle time out (in seconds) to pass to the job

A file to be added to the dock.

The recommended idle time out (in seconds) to pass to the job

Enable bash completion for all interactive bash shells

The amount of time launchd waits before sending a SIGKILL signal

When to show the scrollbars

Whether to enable automatic capitalization

The amount of time launchd waits before sending a SIGKILL signal

This optional key specifies the group to run the job as

Persistent files, and folders in the dock.

Limit how many jobs can be handled concurrently by this service. 0 (default) simply means don't limit.

The server address is of the form: [hostname][:port]

This optional key specifies whether the job participates in advanced communication with launchd

List of binary cache URLs used to obtain pre-built binaries of Nix packages

A printf-style string that is output at the beginning of each log line

This optional key specifies whether initgroups(3) should be called before running the job

Disables adding the default labels

Whether to automatically switch between light and dark mode

Sets the spacing between status icons in the menu bar.

A folder to be added to the dock.

This key was used in Mac OS X 10.4 to control whether a job was kept alive or not

A file to be added to the dock.

This optional key specifies the group to run the job as

Disable transparency in the menu bar and elsewhere

This optional key specifies the group to run the job as

Hostname to use for sharing services.

Sets custom user preferences

This optional key specifies whether the job participates in advanced communication with launchd

This optional key specifies whether the job participates in advanced communication with launchd

If set to true, Nix automatically detects files in the store that have identical contents, and replaces them with hard links to a single copy

Apple menu > System Preferences > Keyboard

If you press and hold certain keyboard keys when in a text area, the key’s character begins to repeat

This optional key specifies whether initgroups(3) should be called before running the job

A spacer to be added to the dock

This optional key specifies whether initgroups(3) should be called before running the job

This key was used in Mac OS X 10.4 to control whether a job was kept alive or not

The command hook script will replace the default implementation of running the build command.

This key was used in Mac OS X 10.4 to control whether a job was kept alive or not

Hot corner action for bottom right corner

Hot corner action for bottom left corner

Hot corner action for top right corner

Hot corner action for top left corner

A folder to be added to the dock.

"OneButton": any tap is a left click. "TwoButton": allow left- and right-clicking.

This key specifies that the job should be spawned into a new security audit session rather than the default session for the context is belongs to

Sets custom system preferences

Target location for Dictionaries

This optional key tells launchctl what type of socket to create

Whether the spacer is small.

Sets the level of font smoothing (sub-pixel font rendering).

Target location for Spotlight Plugins

The path of the darwin configuration.nix used to configure the system, this updates the default darwin-config entry in NIX_PATH

Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.

Hide widgets on desktop.

Configures the trackpad tap behavior

Hide widgets in Stage Manager.

Target location for VST Plugins

This key specifies that the job should be spawned into a new security audit session rather than the default session for the context is belongs to

Whether to enable trackpad force click.

The image format to use, such as "jpg".

Path to a folder to be added to the dock.

This key specifies that the job should be spawned into a new security audit session rather than the default session for the context is belongs to

This optional key tells launchctl what type of socket to create

This optional key tells launchctl what type of socket to create

The local hostname, or local network name, is displayed beneath the computer's name at the top of the Sharing preferences pane

Apple menu > System Preferences > Sound

Sets the beep/alert volume level from 0.000 (muted) to 1.000 (100% volume).

75% = 0.7788008

50% = 0.6065307

25% = 0.4723665

The checkout hook script will replace the default checkout routine of the bootstrap.sh script

Hide items on desktop.

Whether to pin nixpkgs in the system-wide flake registry (/etc/nix/registry.json) to the store path of the sources of nixpkgs used to build the nix-darwin system

Whether to enable Homebrew to upgrade outdated formulae and Mac App Store apps during nix-darwin system activation

This optional key specifies whether listen(2) or connect(2) should be called on the created file descriptor

Whether to disable quarantining of downloads

What is the maximum timeout (in seconds) that will be set for job when using this Runner. 0 (default) simply means don't limit.

Once this list is populated, only applications listed here are considered for receiving a border

Target location for Color Pickers

Apple menu > System Preferences > Keyboard

If you press and hold certain keyboard keys when in a text area, the key’s character begins to repeat

Whether to enable "Natural" scrolling direction

Whether to enable spring loading (expose) for directories.

Target location for VST3 Plugins

Apple menu > System Preferences > Sound

Make a feedback sound when the system volume changed

Whether to run brew services start for the formula and register it to launch at login (or boot)

This optional key specifies whether listen(2) or connect(2) should be called on the created file descriptor

This optional key specifies whether listen(2) or connect(2) should be called on the created file descriptor

Effect to show files when clicked. fan: fan-out effect, grid: box, list: list

Set to 'Dark' to enable dark mode

The number of seconds to delay before the password will be required to unlock or stop the screen saver (the grace period).

Sets the padding around status icons in the menu bar.

The filesystem path to which screencaptures should be written.

Grouping strategy when showing windows from an application. false means "One at a time" true means "All at once"

Target location for Screen Savers

Target location for Input Methods

Sets the mouse tracking speed

Sets the system-wide alert sound

How to display the folder before clicked. stack: Stack of file previews. folder: A folder icon

This optional key is used to control whether your job is to be kept continuously running or to let demand and conditions control the invocation

This is the default directory to look for statically configured secrets like cluster-join-token.key

Sort order for files in folder when clicked.

This optional key is used to control whether your job is to be kept continuously running or to let demand and conditions control the invocation

This optional key is used to control whether your job is to be kept continuously running or to let demand and conditions control the invocation

Disable animation when switching screens or opening apps

Whether to disable the automatic termination of inactive apps.

Collectors to enable in addition to the ones that are enabled by default.

Whether to run brew services restart for the formula and register it to launch at login (or boot)

Collectors to disable from the list of collectors that are enabled by default.

Configures the trackpad corner click behavior

Whether to enable nix-darwin to manage installing/updating/upgrading Homebrew taps, formulae, casks, Mac App Store apps, Visual Studio Code extensions, Go packages, and Cargo crates using Homebrew Bundle

Target location for Internet Plugins

Automatically install Mac OS software updates

Whether to auto-update the tap even if it is not hosted on GitHub

This optional key is used as a hint to launchctl(1) that it should not submit this job to launchd when loading a job or jobs

Whether to ignore cask dependencies, e.g., when you manage them externally

This optional key is used as a hint to launchctl(1) that it should not submit this job to launchd when loading a job or jobs

This optional key is used as a hint to launchctl(1) that it should not submit this job to launchd when loading a job or jobs

This option manages what happens to packages installed by Homebrew that aren't present in the Brewfile generated by this module, during nix-darwin system activation

Target location for Audio Unit Plugins