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General

You can use the options in the General pane of the Parameters toolbar item to adjust global parameters.

Appearance

Appearance: By default, macOS offers two appearance choices: light and dark.
OnyX offers an intermediate mode. This mode displays a light appearance with a dark menu bar and Dock.
This function will only take effect after restarting.

Misc. options

Show graphic effects when opening a window: When windows open, a zooming effect similar to the Scale effect of the Dock is used. If this effect is turned off, windows will open instantly.

Show the location path of the current desktop picture on the desktop: You can use this option to display on the desktop, at the center of the screen, the full path to the picture used as the desktop background.

Turn on the accent menu: By default, you can enter accented characters while using the keyboard layout (as with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch). Press and hold the key to display a list of accent characters, and select the one that you want to use. You can use this option to turn on or turn off this function.

Speed of display of sheets: You can use this option to set the speed that a window's sheet is displayed. A "sheet" is a modal dialog that is attached to a window and asks for input from you.

Speed of display of help tags: You can use this option to set the speed that a help tag is displayed when the mouse is over the icons in a toolbar. By default, a help tag appears after a second and a half. This slider adjusts the display by increments of a half-second up to a total of five seconds.

Turn off help tags: You can use this option to prevent the display of help tags.

Note: This option will be enabled the next time applications is opened.

Screen captures

Screen capture file type: You can use this menu to change the file type (PNG, by default) of screen captures made by using the keyboard shortcuts. You can choose among nine file types: BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, OpenEXR, PDF, PNG, TGA, and TIFF.

Include the date and the time in the name of captures: You can use this option to show or hide the date and the time in the name of captures.

Display a shadow in window captures: By default, when you capture a window (Shift-Command-4 then Space bar), the shadow of this one is also captured. You can use this option to exclude the shadow of window captures.

Path: This option specifies the saving-path for screenshots (your desktop, by default). To change this, click the Select button, select the folder, and click the Choose button.

Name: You can choose the name of the screen captures by entering the name in the Name field and clicking the Apply button.

Recent Items

Turn on appearance of items in the Open Recent menu item of applications in the File menu: The majority of the applications that allow you to open files have an Open Recent menu item in their File menu. By default, this submenu displays a list of the ten last documents opened by the application. You can use this function to turn the appearance of this list on or off. However, certain applications (Adobe Photoshop, GraphicConverter, and so on) use their own routine to store Recent Items.

Number of Recent Items: You can use this field to set the number of entries in the Open Recent command of the File menu of applications that allow it.

Number of Recent Places in Open/Save dialogs: You can use this local menu to display between 1 and 12 recent places (the default is 5) in the Open/Save dialogs.

Click the Restore Defaults button to cancel all modifications caused by OnyX or by another application. After the process has completed, the parameters will be reset, and the display will be the same as when the operating system and the applications were first installed.