Screen Sharing on My Mac OS X System
I wish I had a Snow Leopard Mac OS X server in our office as it would be easier to share screen throughout the office. The Screen Sharing tool within Mac OS X is a great idea, but sometimes quite difficult to use.
Launching the Screen Sharing capability is definitely a pain in the booty, though. What I’d love is an icon on my desktop that is a shortcut to launching the sharing app with my server already specified. It turns out you can do just that, but it’s a bit tricky…
- Start by going to any Finder window and clicking on the name of the server
- Now, once you’re looking at the server window, even if it is still trying to resolve the connection, notice that instead of the usual “Connect As…” notice that there’s a second button there too
- Click on “Share Screen…” and you’ll see your sharing screen show up
- Here’s the trick: click and drag on the icon next to the server name in the window title
- That’s it. It’s not necessarily a pretty icon, but it’ll do the job
- Oh, and you can change the icon to make it prettier too. Here’s what you do: click once on the icon then choose File –> Get Info.
- Now find a picture you like, perhaps on Google Images, then Ctrl-Click on the picture or photo and chose “Copy Image”. Now click once on the tiny icon in the Get Info window and use Cmd-V to paste the image into the icon space
