Customise macOS

Utilities and tools for customising macOS, e.g. appearance or settings like key repeat rates, mouse sensitivity and more. The idea is things which are not easy or are downright impossible to do via System Preferences et. al. are provided here.

Customisations

Appearance

Aqua Desktop

Patches for .car bundles to change appearance of windows, menus, etc.

Features

• Square corners for windows, menus etc.

Installation

1. Some SIP settings require disabling so you can modify the appropriate files -- it's your choice whether or not you want to do this -- not doing so means you cannot apply the changes required. You have to reboot into Recovery Mode to make changes to SIP, the steps are explained in this SE answer but summarised immediately below:

   csrutil enable --without debug --without fs
   

2. While there are backup .car files in this repo, please backup yours locally just in-case. Here's an example of how to do so.

   rsync -rI \
       /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/ \
       ~/Desktop/saResourcesBackup
   

3. In the Appearance folder on this repo copy the appropriate (for your theme i.e. light or dark) edited .car file into /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/, e.g. for DarkAquaAppearance you'd copy DarkAquaAppearance/Edited/DarkAquaAppearance.car.

Known Problems

• Firefox doesn't respect system appearance settings, this is a known defect/bug of Firefox's on macOS.

More...

...in development