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Making Lion Act More Like Snow Leopard
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Unless you have machines that you cannot, for various reasons, upgrade to Lion. So now every time you get used to scrolling one way it's a pain to go work on the other machine.
There are many reasons people may ask for things that you don't see need for. Just because you can't understand doesn't mean you can pass judgement on people. Think before you type.
Instead of switching Lion to Snow Leopard's scrolling behavior, you could just switch Snow Leopard to Lion's behavior. I use BetterTouchTool for that. Then all your computers as well as any smartphones, iPods, and tablets you own will all have the same natural scrolling behavior.
Moving from Pic to Pic
I can't seem to figure out how to go from picture to picture - in iPhoto, or on a web page. With Snow Leopard I could use the Logitech forward and backward buttons on the side, or swipe left or right with the Magic Mouse. It appears that those options have been removed.
Ray
I can't seem to figure out how to go from picture to picture - in iPhoto, or on a web page. With Snow Leopard I could use the Logitech forward and backward buttons on the side, or swipe left or right with the Magic Mouse. It appears that those options have been removed.
Ray
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Pointless. Like the vampires in Twilight.
You get Lion..... only to make it work like SL.
Pointless. Like the vampires in Twilight.
You get Lion..... only to make it work like SL.
One day one has to upgrade because sooner or later one will want to use a program that only runs within Lion. I bookmarked this thread for that day.
I have no use for full-screen stuff on my 27" and 30" monitors, I don't want stuff I do not need anymore to load when I boot my computer, I don't use a magic mouse or magic trackpad for input on my desktops so I don't want this reverse scrolling and I certainly don't want to use iCloud.
Try it out at least for a week!
People don't like change, but I think they should just test out what Apple has brought to the table for a decent amount of time before they revert to SL settings. I love cmd tabbing or swiping through full screen apps. I can only focus one thing at a time any, Apple's implementation of full screen apps is great.
But at least Apple allowed some default write commands to mimic the behavior of their older OS. I guess they knew people would kick up about some features.
I'm liking the new features, and don't have any problems so far except the battery life issue. Oh and that stupid issue with full screen apps not revealing the dock fast enough when you go the the edge of the screen.
Lion isn't out even for a week and people are trying to go back to SL settings so quickly, WTF!
People don't like change, but I think they should just test out what Apple has brought to the table for a decent amount of time before they revert to SL settings. I love cmd tabbing or swiping through full screen apps. I can only focus one thing at a time any, Apple's implementation of full screen apps is great.
But at least Apple allowed some default write commands to mimic the behavior of their older OS. I guess they knew people would kick up about some features.
I'm liking the new features, and don't have any problems so far except the battery life issue. Oh and that stupid issue with full screen apps not revealing the dock fast enough when you go the the edge of the screen.
Lion isn't out even for a week and people are trying to go back to SL settings so quickly, WTF!
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While I can understand people wanting the key repeat back, I'm very happy with the change.
Now if you want to insert accents or special letters (é, æ, etc.) all you have to do is press the letter and hold. Instead of the letter you're holding repeating, there's a menu that comes up where you can click on the character you want or type the corresponding number and it will fill it in for you.
Hadn't heard about this feature — it's very useful for people typing in foreign languages on a US keyboard and is reminiscent of the feature on the iPhone where you hold the letter to select accented letters.
Glad I read this article and tried it out to see what happened when you try to do key repeat. It's good that there's a way to revert to the old behavior for those who want to, but I'm happy with the new feature that replaces it.
Exactly
One day one has to upgrade because sooner or later one will want to use a program that only runs within Lion. I bookmarked this thread for that day.
That "one day" will be sometime off.
Yeah, there are some things I really miss from Snow Leopard but I'm not going to try to make Lion be Snow Leopard. The only stock change I messed around with was the "normal" scrolling option.
One day one has to upgrade because sooner or later one will want to use a program that only runs within Lion. I bookmarked this thread for that day.
By that day we will have 10.8 and people will cry and want 10.8 to work like 10.7. Just like people back in the day wanted 10.5 to look and work like 10.4. The cycle never ends.
That is awesome -- thanks for pointing that feature out. I am glad to give up the key repeat for that!
I ran into my first "speed bump" today.
I'm a retired chef (among other things) and over the years have written hundreds of recipes. While in Chef School I used WORD, then later switched over to Apple Works. Before Friday I had the latest version of Snow Leopard and all my Apple Works and WORD files worked - now when I try to open one I get a message telling me Lion does not support Power PC applications.
I figured my old copy of MS Office needed a replacement, but wow not being able to update all my Apple Works documents to the new version... OUCH
Can anyone help me out here. Yeah I found and am using I Works but what about all those old Apple Works Files ??
I'm a retired chef (among other things) and over the years have written hundreds of recipes. While in Chef School I used WORD, then later switched over to Apple Works. Before Friday I had the latest version of Snow Leopard and all my Apple Works and WORD files worked - now when I try to open one I get a message telling me Lion does not support Power PC applications.
I figured my old copy of MS Office needed a replacement, but wow not being able to update all my Apple Works documents to the new version... OUCH
Can anyone help me out here. Yeah I found and am using I Works but what about all those old Apple Works Files ??
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Re-enabling "Don't Save" makes me _very_ happy. That been driving me nuts. The rest are nice too.
It took me about an hour to get used to natural scrolling and it feels "right".
Getting used to the new mail interface tool a few days and I am not 100% settled on it, but have gone from generally disliking it to generally liking it... Might even try switching to sparrow now that it doesn't seem so different.
The one thing I do wish is that the scroll bars appeared on hover... I find it awkward that I have to start scrolling before they'll even appear.
Re-enabling "Don't Save" makes me _very_ happy. That been driving me nuts. The rest are nice too.
It took me about an hour to get used to natural scrolling and it feels "right".
Getting used to the new mail interface tool a few days and I am not 100% settled on it, but have gone from generally disliking it to generally liking it... Might even try switching to sparrow now that it doesn't seem so different.
The one thing I do wish is that the scroll bars appeared on hover... I find it awkward that I have to start scrolling before they'll even appear.
I really wish Apple didn't let you go back to the original scrolling direction. Now when I go over to someone else's machine, and they reverted back to the original direction, it will be quite frustrating. Come on people, don't be lazy, just take the few days hit, please, for the rest of us.
Well cudos to APPLE HELP. I figured out how to FIND a recipe file and change the application that would open it, at that time had a chance to change all old Apple Works files to do that automatically. PHEW...
That's great, I would have been very *crewed if I could not get at those files.
To read up on this check topic
CHOOSE AN APPLIATION TO OPEN A DOCUMENT...
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Correction:
Natural Scroll: This change seems to have generated the most outcry. In Lion, Apple has reversed the normal scrolling direction for trackpads and scroll wheels. In the past, the metaphor has been that swiping down has caused the page to scroll down. Now, swiping down means scrolling up. It takes a few days to get used to, but if you can't there's an option to revert back.
MacRumors said:
Since Lion's release, we've been collecting tips on reverting changes found in Lion back to behavior found in Snow Leopard. Now some might argue its better to get used to the stock installation, but if that's not you, here are the tips we've seen.
- Natural Scroll: This change seems to have generated the most outcry. In Lion, Apple has reversed the normal scrolling direction for trackpads and scroll wheels. In the past, the metaphor has been that swiping down has caused the page to scroll up. Now, swiping down means scrolling down. It takes a few days to get used to, but if you can't there's an option to revert back.
- Key Repeat: @mikeindustries (requires Terminal):- New Window Animations: @tomasf (requires Terminal):- Don't Save: @tomasf (requires Terminal):- Resume: Disable resume in Lion.
- Spaces: Assigning apps to one space or all spaces.
- Classic Mail: Lion's Mail takes on a distinct iOS look, but the classic Mac OS X Mail look is available through a checkbox preference in Mail.
- Front Row: Mad Hatter has instructions on how to re-enable FrontRow on Lion, though we've heard some mixed results about it working.
- LimeiBook86 posts some instructions which duplicate ones we have shown here, but also includes restoring Finder Window's Path and Status Bar as well as turning off Dashboard as a space.
Article Link: Making Lion Act More Like Snow Leopard
Correction:
Natural Scroll: This change seems to have generated the most outcry. In Lion, Apple has reversed the normal scrolling direction for trackpads and scroll wheels. In the past, the metaphor has been that swiping down has caused the page to scroll down. Now, swiping down means scrolling up. It takes a few days to get used to, but if you can't there's an option to revert back.
I too would love to get the old spaces back. Why would a new OS not support this feature and gratuitously replace it with an apparently less intuitive alternative?
Before anybody asks why I upgraded well it's because mail in my copy of Snow Leopard had bugs which made it just about completely unusable. My office system requires that I use an exchange server, which Snow Leopard was supposed to support, and the only way to cure the problems seemed to be by (paying to) upgrade to Lion (or go back to Leopard).
But, I positively hate the 'Mission Control' (who comes up with these stupid names?!) and would dearly love to be working back in 'spaces'...
ps, I am one of those heretic types that uses a proper mouse (with two buttons) and there was real functional advantages with using this sort of mouse in spaces. Mission control is just cumbersome in comparison.
HEEEEELP!!!! If anybdy can....
Before anybody asks why I upgraded well it's because mail in my copy of Snow Leopard had bugs which made it just about completely unusable. My office system requires that I use an exchange server, which Snow Leopard was supposed to support, and the only way to cure the problems seemed to be by (paying to) upgrade to Lion (or go back to Leopard).
But, I positively hate the 'Mission Control' (who comes up with these stupid names?!) and would dearly love to be working back in 'spaces'...
ps, I am one of those heretic types that uses a proper mouse (with two buttons) and there was real functional advantages with using this sort of mouse in spaces. Mission control is just cumbersome in comparison.
HEEEEELP!!!! If anybdy can....
It works, thanks Strabes
Thanks Strabes
Indeed, you are correct on the fix (not really a fix but a re-direction to enable the above functionality), I just tried it, and it does what I need.
Thank you... hope this works for anyone else trying to enable swiping within folders.
Thanks Strabes
Indeed, you are correct on the fix (not really a fix but a re-direction to enable the above functionality), I just tried it, and it does what I need.
Thank you... hope this works for anyone else trying to enable swiping within folders.
Pages can open appleworks files
Just hit get info on an appleworks file and change all appleworks files to open with pages and you should be set
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Disable rubber band scrolling
Go to "System Preferences", "Universal Access", and in the "Mouse & Trackpad" tab click trackpad options and change the scrolling setting to "without inertia"
I don't know if this works equally for mice, as I'm using a trackpad.
Go to "System Preferences", "Universal Access", and in the "Mouse & Trackpad" tab click trackpad options and change the scrolling setting to "without inertia"
I don't know if this works equally for mice, as I'm using a trackpad.
Good solution...
Apple gave us a way to turn Resume off, so I've turned it off. No problem anymore for me.
If all of the computers that I use ran Lion I would probably give a chance but it's only loaded on my iMac. My MBP, PC and the 2 computers I use at work all have normal scrolling and it would be too confusing to use both styles.
