Front Row was discontinued in 10.7

File recipes/disable_front_row.rb

This recipe does* cause a variable ($PATH) to be set but does so by creating (replacing?) /etc/launchd.conf

*This may not be working as expected, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x

It would be great to be able to configure the do not disturb modes.

I've been repeatedly running the sprout-wrap recipes on my workstation as I build out my soloistrc - it failed a little while ago, with this error:

{code}
STDOUT:
STDERR: 2014-06-06 16:02:56.885 defaults[16226:a07] Could not write domain /Users/elw/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593.; exiting
---- End output of defaults write /Users/elw/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593. idleTime -int 600 ----
Ran defaults write /Users/elw/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593..7720EA65-6F70-593A-ACBC-63CF4F4F3593. idleTime -int 600 returned 1
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.4.0/lib/mixlib/shellout.rb:257:in invalid!' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/mixlib-shellout-1.4.0/lib/mixlib/shellout.rb:244:inerror!'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/chef-11.12.4/lib/chef/mixin/shell_out.rb:43:in `shell_out!'
{code}

When I went to the directory, and looked at the list of extant plist files, I found files where the name had gotten progressively longer - more copies of the UUID, serially, in the filename.

I think this is the recipe fragment responsible:

https://github.com/pivotal-sprout/sprout-osx-settings/blob/master/recipes/screensaver.rb#L13-L16

I think the wildcard there is what's making things go wonky.

Anyway, thoughts from other folks? Surely I'm not the only person to ever hit this. :)

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@aramprice @hiremaga What is the purpose to this recipe? Screen Sharing is accessible in its original location.

there are variables for aqua/non-aqua but they are not configurable osx_aqua_color_preferences.rb:1-2

I believe this recipe existed because it was not possible to launch the Screen Sharing.app directly in earlier versions of OS X.

The recipe does not do much of anything in recent versions of OS X. A similar setting is in System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce transparency, but if we've gone this long without any complaints, it's probably safe to just delete it.

Info on setting ENV vars in OSX

launchctl man page

See #9 for more context

See recipes/snmpd.rb

If this is needed in particular cases it is not clear that this should be part of the default recipe.

/cc @cunnie

See http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060203225241914

Also consider that Accessibility now resides under:

• System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Accessibility

Where access for individual apps can be toggled.

Currently it only disables. This could be re-cast as set_scrolling_preference.

Alternately this could be removed since "natural" scrolling is gaining more traction.

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