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Misc.

You can use the Misc. tab of the Parameters pane to set parameters for the hidden functions of the applications.

Disk Utility:

Verify disk images (.dmg): You can use this option to turn on or off the verification when you mount disk images.

Add other formats of disk images: You can use this option to add supplementary formats if you wish to convert a disk image or create a disk image from a folder. You cannot use this function to create a new empty disk image.

Show Debug menu: Select this checkbox if you want to display a Debug menu in the Disk Utility menu bar.

Verify the disks after burning: You can use this option to turn on or off Verification after burning a disk.

Help Viewer:

Set window to floating mode: By default, the Help Viewer application displays a "floating window". (That is a window that floats in the foreground, above all other open windows.) Turn off this option to display this window like any other window, which can be partly or entirely hidden by other windows. When this option is turned off, 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 Help Center and the help of most applications, the Help Viewer icon appears neither in the Dock nor in the application switcher (Command-Tab). You can use this option to display or hide it.

Turn on the Debug mode: This mode adds much information in the System log (/private/var/log/system.log) while using the Help Viewer application.

Screen Sharing:

Show Bonjour browser: You can use this option to show or hide the list of computers available to the Apple Bonjour protocol.

Show full toolbar: You can use this option to show or hide the full toolbar while screen sharing.

XQuartz:

Show alert message before quitting the application: You can use this option to show or hide the alert message that appears by default when quitting any XQuartz application.

At opening of XQuartz, execute: You can use this menu to choose the application which will load automatically when you open XQuartz.

Misc. applications:

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

Show App Store Debug menu: This option shows or hides a Debug menu in the App Store menu bar.

Show Reminders Debug menu: This option shows or hides a Debug menu in the Reminders menu bar.

Show Photo Booth Debug menu: This option shows or hides a Debug menu in the Photo Booth menu bar.

Turn on the Terminal window Focus: Turning on this option enables choosing which Terminal window is active by placing the mouse pointer above it.

Force AirDrop to be turned on: By default, AirDrop is only available on newer models that have the hardware necessary to work with a certain type of point–to–point Wi-Fi connection. You can use this option to turn on AirDrop on older Mac computers.

- You must turn on this option on both Mac computers, even if one of them already has the correct Wi-Fi hardware.
- You will see other Mac computers on the same network, and they will be able to see yours, even if they are not physically nearby. On a larger network with many Mac computers, this could potentially cause some confusion, and this can be why Apple decided to hide this feature.
- Both Macs must be connected to the same network (existing Wi-Fi network, Ethernet, and so on).

Turn on Dashboard and its widgets: If you turn on this option, clicking on the Dashboard keyboard shortcut will display widgets.

Show Quartz Debug's hidden options: You can use this option to add supplementary options in the Tools and Window menus of Quartz Debug.

Time Machine local backups:

Turn On/Turn Off: You use a portable computer and Time Machine to make backups on an external disk... Since OS X Lion, when your external disk is not connected, Time Machine will save snapshots of files that have changed and will store them on the internal hard disk of your computer. You can use this option to turn on or turn off these local backups.

Launchpad:

Reset: This button deletes the icons in Launchpad then reloads the applications and displays their icons. If the sharpness of the background image has been modified, you have an option to cancel this setting.

Background sharpness: By default, the background image of Launchpad is slightly blurred. You can use this slider to set the sharpness.

Click the Restore Defaults button 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.