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nix-plist-manager

Snapshots

Some things aren’t set with a switch but arranged: the apps in your Dock, the order of your menu bar, your wallpaper. You arrange them once, capture them, and your configuration restores them.

Terminal window
nix run github:sushydev/nix-plist-manager#capture -- applications.systemSettings.desktopAndDock.dock.contents ./dock

That writes what macOS has right now into ./dock. Point the option at it:

desktopAndDock.dock.contents = ./dock;

Settings captured this way:

  • desktopAndDock.dock.contents — the Dock’s apps and folders
  • menuBar.layout — which items show in the menu bar, and in what order
  • wallpaper.wallpaper — the wallpaper for every display and Space
  • a few Accessibility voices and sounds, which point at downloaded assets

Capture again whenever you rearrange things, and commit the directory with the rest of your configuration.