Archive for February, 2008

Leopard: Automatically Expand Open and Save Dialogs

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

The open and save dialogs can automatically have the expanded view opened by default rather than having you need to open it manually each time you go to open or save a file. To enable this setting, use the following command:
defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool TRUE

Leopard: Get buttons from ARD for Screen Sharing

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Screen Sharing is a great enhancement to Leopard. The ability to control other Macs isn’t only available through third party applications any more. However, many administrators who are used to using Apple Remote Desktop will want some of the features they have become accustomed to, such as curtain mode, full screen, get clipboard, etc. So to obtain these features, the following command (all on one line) will unlock many of the buttons that have been disabled in Screen Sharing:
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \
'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' \
'(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'