Misc

The Misc tab of the Parameters panel allows you to set parameters for the hidden functions of the applications.

Disk Utility:

Verify the Disk Images (.dmg): This option allows you to enable or disable the verification when you mount Disk Images.

Add other formats of Disk Images: This option allows you to add supplementary formats if you wish to convert a disk image or create a disk image from a folder. This function won't allow you to create a new empty disk image.

Show Debug menu: Check this case if you want display a Debug menu in the Disk Utility menu bar.

Verify the disks after burning: This option allows you to enable or disable Verification after burning a disk.

Help Viewer:

Set window to floating mode: By default, the Help Viewer application displays a "floating window", i.e. a windows that floats in the foreground, above all other open windows. Disable this option to allow displaying this window like any other window, which can be partly or entirely hidden by other windows. When this option is disabled, the Help Viewer icon is visible in the Dock and in the Application Switcher.

Show the icon in the Dock and application switcher: By default, when consulting the Mac Help and the Help of most applications, the Help Viewer icon appears neither in the dock nor in the Application Switcher (Command + Tab). This option allows you to display or hide it.

Enable the Debug mode: This mode adds many informations in the System log (/private/var/log/system.log) while using the Help Viewer application.

X11:

Show alert message before quitting the application: This option allows you to show or hide the alert message which appears by default when quitting any X11 application.

At launch of X11, execute: This menu allows you to choose the application which will load automatically when you launch X11.

Screen Sharing:

Show Bonjour browser: This option allows you to show or hide the list of machines available to the Apple Bonjour protocol.

Show full toolbar: This option allows you to show or hide the full toolbar while screen sharing.

Dashboard:

Enable Dashboard and its widgets: If you enable this option, clicking on the Dashboard icon in the Dock display widgets.

Enable the Developer Mode of Dashboard: This option allows you to place and use the widgets of the Dashboard on the Desktop of your Mac. Select this option and click the Apply button (the Dock will be reloaded). Then, in the Apple menu, select "System Preferences...", click the Dashboard and Exposé icon and set the Dashboard's Keyboard Shortcut.

- To place a widget on the Desktop, click the Dashboard icon in the Dock or press the Keyboard Shortcut you previously set to display Dashboard. Click the desired widget and hold the mouse-button (as if you wanted to remove it) then press the Keyboard Shortcut to hide Dashboard. The widget will remain on the Desktop and can be used as any other application. You can place as many widgets as you want on the Desktop of your Mac.

- To remove a widget from the Desktop, click and hold the mouse button then press the Keyboard Shortcut to display Dashboard. Then release the mouse button and press the Keyboard Shortcut to hide the Dashboard.

Disable the ripple effect when adding a new widget: This option allows you to enble or disable the ripple effect that appears when you add a new widget in Dashboard.

Others applications:

Apple Remote Desktop: This option shows or hides a Debug menu in the Apple Remote Desktop menu bar.

iCal: This option displays a Debug menu in the iCal menu bar.

iChat: This option enables and disables Data Detectors in iChat. It is a mechanism which allows iChat to recover certains types of information and to propose an adequate action from a local menu.

Terminal: Enable the Terminal window Focus enables chosing wich Terminal window is active by placing the mouse pointer above it.

Interface Builder: This option, disabled by default from the version 3.2, allows you to enable the AppleScript Inspector in the Interface Builder application.

Click on Restore Defaults to cancel all modifications caused by OnyX or by any other application. After execution, the parameters will be reset and the display will be as it was when the System and the applications were first installed.