Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools » Panther

Toggle Mirroring or Extended Desktop, Auto-Detect Displays

Lemmins — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:22:13 +0000

CMD+F1 : Toggle between mirroring and extended desktop modes.

CMD+F2 : Auto-detect an external display.

This is especially helpful if your built-in display stops working and you connect an external monitor, only to find yourself with an extended desktop background image!

Finder keyboard navigation

svenson — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:27:51 +0000

I don’t know whether this trick has already been mentioned:
In the Finder, in List view, you can navigate using the up/down arrow keys. Now that’s well known. If the selection highlights a folder, pressing the right arrow key expands the folder (same as clicking on the “open” triangle symbol on the left side of the folders name).

Pressing the left arrow key collapses the folder again. If the selection highlights a document in an expanded folder, pressing the left arrow key moves the selection up to the containing folder, which then can be collapsed by pressing the left arrow key a 2nd time.

Safari Scrolling

wesjaho — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:18:02 +0000

When browsing Safari, you can instantly scroll to the bottom (or top) of a page by holding down COMMAND and pressing the up or down key. Useful if you are browsing a long page.

Additionally, you can scroll in long increments by holding down OPTION and pressing the up or down key.

Increase Safari Text Size

James — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:21:12 +0000

This isn’t a leopard trick, but it’s a good one never the less, and I’m posting it because someone made comment that the site can be a little hard to read due to the text size. Not everyone has superman eye-sight!

So here it is. Whilst in Safari, press “cmd +”. Thats the Apple key, and the plus/equals key next to the “delete” key. Try it. Pressing the minus key “-” will decrease the text size.

I actually use this feature on my kitchen mac when cooking off a recipe I’ve found on the internet. Easier to see when I’m on the other side of the kitchen!