MacOS Screencapture Fix

Temporary fix for weird bug that keeps reverting the show thumbnail option on the screenshot settings.

The main idea is to create a LaunchAgent that watches the Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist file, and forces the thumbnail option to stay false.

As always, use at your own risk and check any code you are running before doing so.

Install

1. Clone or download this repository
2. (optional) rename all instances of com.fran.screencapturefix to com.YOURUSERNAME.screencapturefix

   You will need to change this on the actual files as well

3. Put the com.fran.screencapturefix/ folder inside ~/Library/Application Support/
4. Take the com.fran.screencapturefix.plist file and place on ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

   You should see a notification, that the screencapturefix.sh script can run in the background

5. On Terminal, run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.fran.screencapturefix.plist

To test everything is working you should run launchctl start com.fran.screencapturefix.plist and then check that you have some entries in the screencapturelog.txt file

Debugging

There are several moving parts in this process that could cause the launch agent to fail.

• Ensure the script has execute permission, if not chmod +x screencapturefix.sh
• Check the plist is correct by running plutil com.fran.screencapturefix.plist, should return OK
• Check the last status of the agent by running launctl list | grep screencapturefix, 0 is a success
• Run the script from the terminal using sh screencapturefix.sh

License

All code is under the MIT license