New M1 iMacs Exclusive Accent Colors

[TheralSadurns]

Hi everyone.
I notices a couple of videos and reports online that mention that the new iMacs have ONE ADDITIONAL Accent Color all the way to the RIGHT in System Preferences/General. Yellow for a yellow iMac, green for a green iMac etc..

This value shows up to the right of Graphite (see screenshot).
Since these settings are not showing on other machines... I was wondering whether they don't exist, or are just hidden. I'm assuming it's the latter.

If people with the new iMacs are willing to check... we can find out what the actual values for these colors are... and we may be able to set them via Terminal.

There's a pretty interesting discussion of this topic here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...termine-the-macos-10-14-accent-color/51695756

Sadly... it's kinda outdated.

It'd be cool if you had a new iMac, could set the Accent Color to that special 10th color. Then open Terminal and enter

defaults read -g AppleAccentColor

And report back WHICH iMac you have... and what result was displayed.

 

[rambo47]

Holy Smokes, never noticed that! I have dark/slate blue to match the blue iMac. It's kinda slick.

 

[TheralSadurns]

Holy Smokes, never noticed that! I have dark/slate blue to match the blue iMac. It's kinda slick.

Can you run the Terminal command and report back the results ?!

 

[coso]

It is known that every new iMac comes by default with an accent color matching the aluminum chassis one

 

[rambo47]

Standard Terminal with no modifications:

 

[maternidad]

Standard Terminal with no modifications:

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They meant to request you ran defaults read -g AppleAccentColor while your iMac exclusive accent color is set

 

[rambo47]

They meant to request you ran defaults read -g AppleAccentColor while your iMac exclusive accent color is set

Ah, I type that and get does not exist.

 

[maternidad]

Ah, I type that and get does not exist.

Your accent color was set to multicolor; open System Preferences, go to General, and pick the accent color displayed the farthest to the right!

 

[rambo47]

 

[TheralSadurns]

Wow... wtf... where do they store that setting then?! Mhhh...

 

[ahodes]

It's the default value for the iMac, so maybe it removes the preference. Notice how the title of that extra color is "This Mac"? It doesn't seem like the colors are distinct options in the AppleAccentColor pref. Guessing that if you choose multicolor on the new iMac you get a value returned from that command?

 

[TheralSadurns]

I found the answer:
https://georgegarside.com/blog/macos/imac-m1-accent-colours-any-mac/

Start by enabling the hardware-based accent colors. This requires enabling NSColorSimulateHardwareAccent.

In Terminal write:

defaults write -g NSColorSimulateHardwareAccent -bool YES

Then choose a color with NSColorSimulatedHardwareEnclosureNumber with a value between 3 and 8 inclusive.

defaults write -g NSColorSimulatedHardwareEnclosureNumber -int 3

3 = yellow
4 = green
5 = blue
6 = pink
7 = purple
8 = orange

 

[lmaodzedun]

Why it's not working on iMac M1 Silver?