Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

1. Find the screen sharing application and put it in the dock for future convenience. It is found at /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app
2. Type this into terminal (it allows you to see networked computers that can be controlled):
   defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1
3. 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)'

   
   
4. Now restart screen sharing to see the buttons

written by WhizzKid \\ tags: hacks, Leopard, screen sharing

6 Responses to “Turn simple Screen Sharing in to Apple Remote Desktop (almost)”

1. James Says:
   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!

2. someone Says:
   April 18th, 2008 at 12:04 am

   what is the terminal u are refering to

3. Aranittara Says:
   April 18th, 2008 at 3:39 am

   -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(’
   got above error on second message

4. James Says:
   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)’

5. TMUP 128: System Preferences Part 5 | Typical Mac User Podcast Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 7:36 am

   [...] Trick for making your Screen sharing application go on Steroids [...]

6. Nasser Says:
   May 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm

   thanks a lot ,
   what a great tweak to that of ichat screen sharing

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