

Show Scroll Bars adjusts how scroll bars in macOS/OS X behave. This turns the menu bar and Dock black, rather than white, to better fit in with some professional applications that have dark interfaces and help tone things down so that the menu is less distracting. New in Yosemite was the Use dark menu bar and Dock checkbox. In the Blue theme, you get the familiar ‘traffic light’ buttons at the top-left of windows and blue buttons/selected menu items elsewhere. With the Graphite theme, all of these are grey. This affects default buttons in dialogs, selected menu items, and also the close/minimise/full-screen buttons at the top-left of most app windows. The Appearance menu determines the button, menu and window theme for your Mac, enabling you to switch between Blue and Graphite. The General pane is a grab-bag of options related to appearance, scroll bars, document behaviour and the number of recent items shown in the Apple menu.
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Read next: Which Mac do I have: How to identify model, year and serial number and Such panes are placed at the very bottom of the window.Ī third-party System Preferences pane can be removed either by the pane’s own uninstaller (if it has one) or by Ctrl/right-clicking it and selecting ‘Remove…’

By default, macOS High Sierra and earlier versions of OS X will provide you with just under 30 panes (the exact number is determined by the hardware you’re using – for example, if you’ve no optical drive, ‘CDs and DVDs’ will not be shown), but third-party products may also install into System Preferences. There are two different kinds of customisation worth noting with system preferences: the panes that are installed and the panes that are visible.

Pressing Return or clicking a results list item will confirm. Use the cursor keys to navigate the results list and the spotlight will become more vivid over the option you’re about to choose. As you type, the number of subjects in the results list will be filtered to match your search term, and spotlights will appear, highlighting potentially relevant panes that might offer what you require.
