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- Find the screen sharing application and put it in the dock for future convenience. It is found at /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app
- Type this into terminal (it allows you to see networked computers that can be controlled):
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1 - Now, to add lots of buttons that are also found in Apple Remote Desktop, type this as one line into terminal:
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \ 'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' \ '(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen, GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'
- Now restart screen sharing to see the buttons
April 17th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Nice one whizzkid and good to see you back!
I’ve been doing a lot of screen sharing to my kitchenmac lately, having the extra tweaks is nice!
April 18th, 2008 at 12:04 am
what is the terminal u are refering to
April 18th, 2008 at 3:39 am
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(‘
got above error on second message
April 18th, 2008 at 10:57 am
try it all one ONE line in Terminal… (someone, the “terminal” application in Applications-> Utilities)
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ‘NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar’ -dict-add ‘TB Item Identifiers’ ‘(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)’
May 7th, 2008 at 7:36 am
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May 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
thanks a lot ,
what a great tweak to that of ichat screen sharing
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Hey guys, does anyone here know how to delete the “my computers” in the new list because I have computers that I have changed the name and changed the network so I need to know how to delete the computers.
Urgently need a response!
MacUser
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
hello, I like your tweak.
Before using your trick I used to go through a finder window, choosing the computer I want to connect to in the shared toolbar then click on the screen sharing button.
I’d like to be able to connect only to my mac mini using one and only button, or one quicksilver command.. do you think it’s possible to make screensharing connect to a specific computer directly ? (i mean skipping the first menu of the computer choices)
December 11th, 2008 at 7:34 am
This doesn’t work any more. I’ve been playing with it for over an hour. The identifiers are still in the Strings output, but only the Clipboard and Scale options work. In what version of Leopard did you do this? I’m running 10.5.5
Or, if you can tell me how to make it work, that would be fantastic!
December 30th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
i’ve tried typing (and copying then pasting after removing the line breaks) in one line in the terminal but i still get the same -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(’ error that Aranittara got
January 16th, 2009 at 7:37 am
NOTE!!!!
Well, if you have updated Leopard, then you must have Screen Sharing v1.0.1 , and this code wont work.
You can replace v1.0.1 with the v1.0 from you Leopard Install DVD, with Pacifist (google it), a simple app that extracts files from pkg archives (no need to buy it, just use it unregistered).
That worked for me, and was the only way to have the extra options.
March 19th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
would these features be available with iChat screen sharing as well?
March 20th, 2009 at 4:41 am
I got the first command to work and can see all of the computers I have available to me.
The second long command wouldn’t do anything so I looked and sure enough, I have version 1.0.1.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I can’t have the second step work – no extra buttons.
OS X : 10.5.6
Screen sharing : 1.0.1 (3500200)
Is it possible this has been shut off?
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
if you enable it can you disable it?