Sublime Forum

**Kbreit** · April 25, 2020, 5:06am

I use Sublime 3 on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Today I setup the non-ligature based JetBrains Mono and noticed the font was huge on Linux but appropriate on Linux. I use git to synchronize my configurations so I couldn’t just modify the local settings and have it stick. However, on my Mac, the Preferences (OSX).sublime-settings file isn’t being recognized. The file is located at /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/Default and has the content of:

{
	"font_size": 11,
}

Why would this not be picked up on Mac?

**deathaxe** · April 25, 2020, 2:48pm

User defined Preferences should always be created in the User package. By creating such a file in the Default package, the default settings shipped with Sublime Text are overwritten.

With $packages = /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages

Settings Applied to all OS’s
$packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings

Settings Applied on Windows
$packages/User/Preferences (Windows).sublime-settings

Settings Applied on Linux
$packages/User/Preferences (Linux).sublime-settings

Settings Applied on MacOS
$packages/User/Preferences (OSX).sublime-settings

**Kbreit** · April 25, 2020, 4:23pm

I may be doing it wrong but this isn’t working. Here’s some output showing the contents of the User directory.

User [master●●] % pwd && ls *Preferences* && cat Preferences\ \(OSX\).sublime-settings
/Users/kbreit/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User
Preferences (Linux).sublime-settings Preferences.sublime-settings
Preferences (OSX).sublime-settings
───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ File: Preferences (OSX).sublime-settings
───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ {
   2   │     "font_size": 11,
   3   │ }
───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

**OdatNurd** · April 25, 2020, 5:56pm

Platform specific settings aren’t loaded from the User package (although platform specific key bindings are).

**Kbreit** · April 25, 2020, 6:33pm

So where would I set them? I thought the first responder said they are in User.

**TheSecEng** · April 26, 2020, 1:23am

https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/settings.html

See here for valid setting load order. Sounds like this might need to be a feature request.

**deathaxe** · April 27, 2020, 7:50pm

I had key bindings in mind. Therefore was sure it works for settings as well. Ooouuff!

**Kbreit** · April 27, 2020, 8:19pm

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/PlatformSettings

This appears to solve my problem.

Platform specific configurations