Turn simple Screen Sharing in to Apple Remote Desktop (nearly)

  1. Find the screen sharing application and put it in the dock for future convenience. It is found at /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app
  2. Type that into terminal (it allows you to see netowrked computers that can be controlled):
    defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1
  3. Now, to add lots of buttons that are
    additionally found in Apple Remote Desktop, type that as one line into terminal:
    defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing 
    'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' 
    '(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,
    GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'
  4. Now restart screen sharing to see the buttons

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