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Pimping up Camino

Camino is my default browser now; the memory and CPU hog that is Firefox has been relegated to times when using FireBug is absolutely necessary.

There are a few things however that make Camino feel a bit more “Firefoxesque” :

• Open up System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts and add these for Camino :

  • “Bookmark Current Page…” - CMD+D
  • “Search the Web…” - CMD+K

• Use CMD+(1-9) to focus tabs by number : install FireTabs

• Perform a Google “I feel lucky” search from the address bar : create a file called ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/user.js and add this to it :

  user_pref("keyword.enabled", true);
  user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=");
  

Now we have all the comfort of Firefox - without the performance issues. Cool!

SynergyKM GUI and Keyboard shortcuts for switching screens

There has been one thing that has been missing for me from the excellent SynergyKM GUI for mac : keyboard shortcuts to switch screens.

Today, Lorenz Schori, one of the core developers let me in on this hack :

• Navigate to Library/Preferences and open net.sourceforge.synergy2.synergyd.plist either with the “Property List Editor” if you have developer tools installed or with your favorite text editor.
• If it is a binary plist you have to convert it into a xml file using the following command in the terminal: “plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.synergy2.synergyd.plist”
• Navigate to your configuration contained in the “ConfigSets” node. By default and if you did not rename it it’s called “default” ;)
• Add the desired keystrokes to the options dict in the same manner as the other options are set. I’ve attached an example synergy property list file and a screenshot which shows how to do it with the property list editor. In the same way you can tweak the synergy config file to get fractional screen edges working with synergy.

And last but not least a big fat warning: unfortunately the prefpane tends to delete this changes whenever you hit the “apply now” button. You might want to control synergy only from the status menu and backup your tweaked config file.

Thanks Lorenz!