Leopard Screen Sharing - How to remove a computer from My Computers List

[m021478]

Does anyone know how I can remove one of the computers that I have currently listed in the "My Computers" List of Leopard's ScreenSharing.app??

I am referring to the list of locally connected and Bonjour computers that appears when you launch the ScreenSharing.app manually by double clicking the ScreenSharing.app which is located in your System/Libraries/CoreServices folder on your Mac...

See the screenshot below:

 

[plinden]

Double click on your account's Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist. This will open the Property List Editor. Remove or add to the SavedComputers entry.

 

[nicko97]

Leopard Screen Sharing - How to remove a computer from My Computers List

Hi plinden

When I open the file com.apple.AppleShareClient.plist it opens with texteditor and I can't read the file.

Do you know how I can launch List editor?

 

[Mal]

Property List Editor is a part of the Developer Tools (I think it's actually now called Xcode Tools) which is on your install disk.

jW

 

[leodavinci0]

I use this for plist editing:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22659

since I never felt like installing the developer tools. It works well in my opinion.

 

[nicko97]

Leopard Screen Sharing - How to remove a computer from My Computers List

Thanks for the plist info I was able to install it but I'm still not sure how to remove a computer from the My Computers list

 

[plinden]

That's the wrong plist file. Open com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist and look for SavedComputers.

Sorry about the confusion with Property List Editor - installing the dev tools has always been the first thing I do so I forget what comes as standard.

 

[nicko97]

I can't find that file, the only apple share file that I can find is:

com.apple.AppleShareClient.plist

Have you seen any issue with copy and paste?

I can't copy and paste from the mac to a linux server. I'm having this problem with screen sharing and chicken of the VNC.

 

[plinden]

Look in your account's Library folder, not the system Library, eg. /Users/nicko97/Library/Preferences, not /Library/Preferences.

I'd just like to point out, that's what I said in my first response "Double click on your account's Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist."

Preferences specific to your account go into ~/Library/Preferences. System wide preferences go into /Library/Preferences.

I'm not on my Mac at the moment so I can't check copy-and-paste. But I use CotV almost daily to connect to a Linux machine and haven't noticed any issues getting clipboard data copied across. With Windows <-> Linux via VNC, I do have problems.

 

[nicko97]

Hi plinden,

Thanks for the clarification that worked.