JeBeKe » Leopard

Transparent Hidden Dock icons

JeBeKe — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:22:25 +0000

If you hide an application, you can reflect this in the dock by making the icons transparent. Just execute the following command in the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES

Screen sharing: extra icons

JeBeKe — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:26:17 +0000

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ‘NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar’ -dict-add ‘TB Item Identifiers’ ‘(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain, Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)’

Source: macworld.com

Turning off unneeded services

JeBeKe — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:10:41 +0000

There is a big list here of services you can turn on/off on an apple computer running Tiger and/or Leopard.
Source: macgeekery

Add a ‘recent things’ stack to the Dock

JeBeKe — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:16:19 +0000

First enter the following in a terminal window:
- defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’
Then restart the Dock:
- killall Dock

Source: MacOsxHints

Leopard: Display full paths as Finder window titles

JeBeKe — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:35:46 +0000

$ defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
$ killall Finder

Source: MacOsxHints

Rebuild the Leopard “LaunchServices database”

JeBeKe — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:05:16 +0000

Same as for Tiger, except that the path to ‘lsregister’ changed:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework\
/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework\
/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local \
-domain system -domain user

Switching to Leopard

JeBeKe — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:58:50 +0000

Last friday, I bought the brand new Leopard. I started installing the new 10.5 on my Mac Pro from scratch.
Everything went fine, except for time machine. This is the result of my investigations, which took quite some time to figure out:

1. Disable time machine
2. Disable spotlight on every internal and external harddisk
3. Enable spotlight disk by disk waiting upon spotlight having finished after each disk
4. Enable time machine (see below)
If you don’t do it this way, it might take up a very long time for spotlight an certainly for time machine to finish its first job.

Update:If you still experience problems with backing up all at once:
1. Format your backup drive as described in other posts (GUID)
2. Exclude everything, except 1 directory with just 50MB or something in it.
3. Start TM
4. Gradually remove some exclusions, so TM can continue the backup… really gradually.
Success