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General

You can use the options in the General tab to adjust global parameters.

Misc. options:

Graphic effects when opening 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 Current Desktop Picture on the Desktop: You can use this option to display on the Desktop, at center of the screen, the full path to the picture used as Desktop Background.

Remove the alert message on first opening applications downloaded from the Internet: At first opening of an application downloaded from the Internet, an alert message appears. This message gives miscellaneous information on the source of the downloaded file, and you can open the file.

You can use this option to show or hide this alert message.
Warning: Selecting this option presents a potential risk of security. Indeed, XProtect, the anti-malware system used by OS X, cannot check the downloaded files anymore.

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

Dark menu bar in fullscreen mode: Some applications have a full screen mode that hides the menu bar. To make it appear, move the mouse pointer up on the edge of the screen.

Turning on this option allows you to show the menu bar with black background.

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 which is attached to a window and asks for input from the user.

Mode of operation for CrashReporter: By default, when an application quits unexpectedly, an alert message appears that allows you to reopen the application and send a report to Apple. It's the basic mode of operation of OS X, but two other modes exist. The Developer mode displays an alert message with miscellaneous debug information. The Server mode, turned on by default in OS X Server, doesn’t display any message but stores the Crash reports in the Library/Logs/CrashReporter and Library/Logs/CrashReporter folder in your home folder.

Automatically check for updates: If the "Automatically check for updates" option is turned on in the System Preferences (Software Update), you can use this option to modify its frequency ("Every 7 days", by default).

Preferences Panes:

Archives: This button launches the installation of an Archives Preferences pane that you can use to change the settings of the Archive Utility application.

Network Link Conditioner: This button launches the installation of a Network Link Conditioner Preferences pane.

To uninstall a Preferences pane, click its icon with the right button of the mouse or hold the Control key while clicking the icon with the left mouse button.

Animated Desktop Background:

Animated Desktop Background: You can use this option to choose a Screen Saver among those installed by OS X and use it as a Desktop Background.

Screen Captures:

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

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 typing the name in the Name field and clicking the Apply button.

Recent items:

Turn on appearance of items in the Open Recent command in the File menu of the applications: 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 (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 execution, the parameters will be reset, and the display will be the same as when the System and the applications were first installed.