Making Lion Act More Like Snow Leopard

[cargath]

The "lack of key-repeating" is actually a feature: If you hold down a letter key, you will get a popup, enabling you to use variations of this letter. For non-US users this is pretty killer: I'm from Germany, and now it is possible for me to get a US-layout keyboard (which is a lot better for coding) without giving up on the ä, ö, ü and ß. In which situation do you need key-repeating anyway? The only one i can think of is the annoying repetition of exclamation / question marks!!!!!111

 

[diamond.g]

So you heard from one person on Twitter that, once he used the installer to install Front Row in 10.7, Mission Control stopped working. That's a pretty small sample size; isn't it?

I used it, and I'm not having any problems.

Maybe he's something else that's causing the conflict.

I have heard that Front Row doesn't work in Lion with iTunes 10.5 installed.

 

[sauron34]

Do Anyone knows how to zoom the desktop on Lion? In SL was Ctrl + scroll

 

[slashlos]

Reverse [SL] scrolling direction on Early '08 MB?

My trackpad dialog doesn't reveal such a reverse / normal scrolling option:

Anyone know how to accomplish this feat on my system? I typically use an external monitor, M$ scroll wheel mouse and wired keyboard.

Any help appreciated thanks in advance.

 

[paulsalter]

My trackpad dialog doesn't reveal such a reverse / normal scrolling option:

Anyone know how to accomplish this feat on my system? I typically use an external monitor, M$ scroll wheel mouse and wired keyboard.

Any help appreciated thanks in advance.

top option in your screenshot

 

[gulfie]

Feature regression

Some people really don't like change, now do they?

Some people just don't like having perfectly good features taken away from them for no clear reason (or benefit).

And as a user of OS X, Linux and Windows - interchangeably, every day - its actually quite useful to have them all behave in broadly the same way around something as simple as scroll bars.

Much as I am first and foremost an Apple (computer) user I find the phrase 'natural scrolling' a tad arrogant, and symptomatic of an approach that takes no heed of its customers. Versions is a particular headache for me as I work in a non-linear fashion and frequently open, modify and then close without saving, deliberately. Versions stops me working the way I've worked for over 20 years. Now I'm not saying the approach is (in the long term) the right one, but you can't introduce such a radical change overnight with no means of turning it off.

Respect the fact that not everybody will just sit there and be told how they can use the computer they paid for (that's why I quit using an iPhone two years ago), and might want a little more control over how they work.

 

[firetech]

Pinch to Zoom. Treat it the same way as you do on iOS.

You're doing it wrong. That will zoom the entire page, not the map view (and it will all be pixelated). At least in Google maps in Safari and Chrome.

After investigating further, it's a matter of preference, and both modes have the same 'naturality' as when scrolling a page. In 'natural' scrolling, you pull the map back and forward.

However, I use way too many non-Macs to be able to use 'natural' scrolling. The only Mac I use is my laptop. Otherwise, I'm a Linux guy and administrator.

'Unnatural' scrolling for me.

 

[gulfie]

Snow Leopard scrolling = Document fixed in position and the screen is moved.

I think you mean "natural scrolling as defined by anybody but Apple" and for people like me who use multiple operating systems every day, consistency is helpful.

 

[batchtaster]

Answers like this don't require any critical thinking or intellectual honesty. It's the kind of stuff people skip over in google's search results.

What exactly was the critical thinking or intellectual honesty behind upgrading in the first place? It was there, it was shiny and I had to have it? It's a self-created problem.

"Doctor, it hurts when I go like this."
"Then don't do that."

What people skip over is other people selling a perfectly good Ford Flex to buy a Mustang, then complaining about the luggage space.

 

[talmy]

Versions is a particular headache for me as I work in a non-linear fashion and frequently open, modify and then close without saving, deliberately. Versions stops me working the way I've worked for over 20 years. Now I'm not saying the approach is (in the long term) the right one, but you can't introduce such a radical change overnight with no means of turning it off.

The change is indeed radical and involves relearning. I'm not at a Mac at the moment, but I seem to remember a "revert to last opened" that should do what you want, just differently.

 

[The Economist]

It's always good to have the option to enable or disable certain things.

I liked most of the new things, except Resume, it can be annoying as hell. Particularly with Preview and Safari; resume was disabled the very same day I installed Lion.

The new way of scrolling is okay for me; I already got used to it.

 

[toogoodius]

couldn't agree more

Um.. Try telling that to the folks who want the old style Spaces. No choice. No options. Apple has said to them "the new way, like it or lump it."

Or try telling it to the ones who don't like Apple's move to all-grey icons. No choice. No options. Apple has said to them "the new way, like it or lump it."

I could not agree with that more. Spaces was much quicker to use than mission control- esp with a two button mouse. I would change back to Snow Leopard right now if mine hadn't been full of bugs!

 

[toogoodius]

Please tell!

I've already changed BOTH of those things back. What are you talking about?

Hello,

i'd be extremely grateful if you could tell me how to revert back to the old style spaces....

thanks

 

[accessoriesguy]

I could not agree with that more. Spaces was much quicker to use than mission control- esp with a two button mouse. I would change back to Snow Leopard right now if mine hadn't been full of bugs!

yeah thats one thing i'm not excited for, i had a hand swipe using jgrasp to go through my spaces. Way faster than anything on mission control.

The only problem with spaces is that some programs did not always run well with it and it had some minor issues working across different spaces.

They seem to have fixed it now, but it looks more complicated. They should have an option to set up default amount of spaces, or can we already?

 

[slashlos]

Yippee, my hero!

top option in your screenshot

duh.

 

[gugy]

Resume: Disable resume in Lion.

This is not working for me. I did disable it on system preferences like it says above, but when I shut down the computer and start it again all my old windows and apps that I quitted last time the computer was on all come back.
Very annoying thing. I like to start every morning fresh. The only apps I assigned to open at login should do that, but this resume thing brings everything up.
Any ideas in how to fix that?
Thanks!

 

[sauron34]

Sorry, the universal zoom is like always, but you have to configure it.

 

[paulsalter]

This is not working for me. I did disable it on system preferences like it says above, but when I shut down the computer and start it again all my old windows and apps that I quitted last time the computer was on all come back.
Very annoying thing. I like to start every morning fresh. The only apps I assigned to open at login should do that, but this resume thing brings everything up.
Any ideas in how to fix that?
Thanks!

did you take the tick out of the box that comes up when you shutdown/restart, this is defaulted to on and cannot be changed as a default, you have to remove it every time if you want a fresh start

 

[huntercr]

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 ??

You could try and reinstall Snow Leopard in a VirtualBox VM... then you shoul dbe able to use rosetta. I'm sure someone will also figure out a way to reinstall rosetta if you can wait for it...

 

[Amazing Iceman]

The "lack of key-repeating" is actually a feature: If you hold down a letter key, you will get a popup, enabling you to use variations of this letter. For non-US users this is pretty killer: I'm from Germany, and now it is possible for me to get a US-layout keyboard (which is a lot better for coding) without giving up on the ä, ö, ü and ß. In which situation do you need key-repeating anyway? The only one i can think of is the annoying repetition of exclamation / question marks!!!!!111

Very useful for those times when I fall asleep on top of the keyboard. now my documents don't get damaged.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

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 ??

Well, if you want to save some bucks and get to your files qckly, just install OpenOffice so you could convert your files. Then when the time is right, get either iWork or MS Office or whatever you have in mind.

 

[gugy]

did you take the tick out of the box that comes up when you shutdown/restart, this is defaulted to on and cannot be changed as a default, you have to remove it every time if you want a fresh start

Thanks it did help on the apps and windows.
Do you know why Safari still bringing me the last pages I visited?

Also, I did notice when I try to shut down and restart again the box checks itself in again. Is there a way to make it permanent off?

I appreciate your help.

 

[cargath]

Thanks it did help on the apps and windows.
Do you know why Safari still bringing me the last pages I visited?

Also, I did notice when I try to shut down and restart again the box checks itself in again. Is there a way to make it permanent off?

I appreciate your help.

Safari seems to be very unpredictable. I quit it, thinking it would reopen my tabs, because i wanted to restart my computer. But it didn't work, my tabs where gone. I tried recreating the situation, quit Safari and restarted with and without remembering open windows, but this time, Safari always remembered my tabs.

What should work for you is quitting Safari while holding the Option-key. This way it should discard all information about open windows.

 

[jonathandlopez]

Anyone figure out how to get Mail to have the horizontal bars--where you have the Subject, sender, date ABOVE the message displayed? I hate how it is only used as a sidebar now.

 

[jcheyne]

Key repeating

The "lack of key-repeating" is actually a feature: If you hold down a letter key, you will get a popup, enabling you to use variations of this letter. For non-US users this is pretty killer … In which situation do you need key-repeating anyway? The only one i can think of is the annoying repetition of exclamation / question marks!!!!!111

I agree. Good feature for the diacritical marks. For me, key repeating is disabled only for A-Z and 0-9. !!!!!!!! ?????????? and so forth are still possible. We can still type "Donuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" as if our finger got stuck in some Donut-induced stupor. "Donuts! mmmmmmmmmmmm!" takes more commitment.