Folks, when opening System Settings, is it possible to set a default for it to open on the General tab?
Mine currently opens on Appearance and would prefer that it opened on General?
I think it's a bug in System Settings, as the CurrentExtensionURL is saved in com.apple.systempreferences.plist, but not respected when opening the app again.
You can create a simple app with Script Editor to open it at any desired tab
Code:
do shell script "open x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.systempreferences.GeneralSettings"
im a 35yr Mac user but a noob to any kind of coding, but isn't there a way to 'edit' the prefmapping.plist file to open 'General' instead of 'Appearance'?
Im baffled at how is moving away from obvious/helpful things like this.
It's 2024 and this is still the case. WTF? Granted it's technically not broken or causing problems, but I've seen countless google searches on this topic after I went looking that they should surely know it's annoying problem for a bunch of people. Unless statistically people are clicking to "Appearance" way more than the other settings when opening MacOS settings.