Chapter 9. Preference Settings
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## Chapter 9. Preference Settings

CrossOver preferences are available from the CrossOver Menu. Preference settings modify the behavior of CrossOver as a whole, affecting all bottles uniformly.

Preferences are stored separately for each user of a system, so changing your preferences will not change behavior for anyone else on your Mac.

## System Integration Preferences

These settings modify the way that CrossOver interacts with OS X and the Finder.

Removable volume behavior. Anytime you insert a disk or attach a USB volume to your Mac, CrossOver can scan that volume, detect Windows installers, and offer to install them. By default, CrossOver will perform this scan automatically and ask for confirmation before installing anything. You can change this setting to override this confirmation, or to instruct CrossOver to ignore disk insertion altogether.

Default value: Ask for confirmation before launching

Ask for Mac OS X Install Disc and startup if CrossOver needs quartz-wm. quartz-wm is a system component that greatly improves CrossOver's integration with the OS X desktop. It is only available on the original OS X installation disks. CrossOver will install quartz-wm automatically at startup if the OS X disk is inserted.

By default, CrossOver will nag you to insert your OS X installation disk each time it starts until quartz-wm is installed. This setting may be used to turn the nag message on or off.

Default value: on

Programs Folder. Whenever an entry is added to the CrossOver Programs Menu, an icon is added to a Finder folder for easy launching of that program in the future. This setting lets you specify where these icons are created.

A "~" character in this field represents your home folder.

Default value: ~/Applications/CrossOver

Forward clipboard actions to Windows applications. Clipboard actions (cut, copy and paste) are performed on a Macintosh using the Command key: Command-X, Command-C and Command-V. On Windows the same actions are performed via Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.

The control-key combinations are always available in Windows programs running with CrossOver. When interacting with Windows and native OS X applications at the same time it may become awkward to remember which keypresses to use, so CrossOver attempts to support the use of Command-X, Command-C and Command-V in Windows applications as well.

For example, when this option is turned on CrossOver will pass a Ctrl-V keypress to the active Windows application anytime a user presses Command-V or selects Paste from the Edit menu. In most cases this will result in a paste action in the Windows program. If the application uses Command-V for a different purpose, or does not support cutting and pasting, the resulting behavior may be unpredictable.

Default value: on

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