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Apple Canadian Settings through MCX

Background I was tired of looking at my end-user’s screens and calling up “Managed Software Center” rather than “Managed Software Centre.” I figured I would enforce both the system-wide language setting, as well as enforce keyboard layouts to include both Canadian English and Hebrew. Those are kept in two files. com.apple.HIToolbox.plist holds the Keyboard settings .GlobalPreferences.plist holds the language settings The leading . means that it’s an invisible file, but you can use the terminal to copy it to another location: cp ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist /PATH/TO/GlobalPreferences.plist If you notice that in the second path, I removed the leading . to make it visible. .Plist setup The keyboard settings file just need to… Read More »Apple Canadian Settings through MCX