#PRESENTATION SCREEN SAVER MAC WINDOWS#
The first is the pattern (called wallpaper in the Windows world) applied to the Mac’s desktop.
#PRESENTATION SCREEN SAVER MAC MAC#
The Desktop & Screen Saver preference, as the name suggests, controls two of the more visual functions of the Mac OS. It’s within the ‘Turn off text smoothing for font sizes x and smaller’ pop-up menu that you choose the point size at (and below) which antialiasing is not applied. If you find small text difficult to read, turning off antialiasing for just those small sizes can help make the text more legible. And that’s where the second item in this area comes in. However, smaller font sizes can be harder to read if antialiasing is turned on. With the ‘Use LCD font smoothing when available’ option on, fonts of medium and large point sizes will look smoother. Your choices are None, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, and 50.įont smoothing: The Mac can smooth the look of fonts using a technology called antialiasing. The ‘Recent items’ pop-up menu is here for no apparent good reason, but it allows you to choose the number of recent documents, applications, and servers that show up when you select the Recent Items command in the Apple menu. Much of the time people want to start fresh rather than with a desktop cluttered with old document windows, and enabling this option makes that possible. The ‘Close windows when quitting an application’ option addresses another complaint that some people had with Lion: When you restarted an application, all open documents and windows were restored when you next launched the application. If you choose not to, the next time you open the document the last version you elected to save is the one that appears (versus the last autosaved version). When enabled, the first option in this area-’Ask to keep changes when closing documents’-causes a dialog box to appear when you close a document, asking whether you’d like to keep your changes. Some people found that they didn’t care for this feature as they didn’t want to save the last changes they made before closing a document. Saving and such: Mountain Lion, like Lion before it, has an AutoSave feature, which (in supported applications) will automatically save your changes as you work. You might like this option if, for example, you routinely work on long, multipage documents, and you want to move to the beginning, middle, or end of your documents with a single click. Optionally, you can configure it to jump to the spot that you clicked. The default setting is to jump to the next page when you click anywhere in the scrollbar. You can also configure the behavior of the scrollbar when you click in it. (You may see a thumb on the bottom of the window, however, because you can scroll to the right to see more information about the files within the window.) If a window has hundreds of items, you’ll see a small thumb, which indicates that you can scroll the window quite a bit before you reach the end. For instance, if all the objects in a window are showing, you’ll see no thumb on the right side of the window because you have nowhere to scroll to. Also, thumbs are sized proportionally to the number of items in a window. One advantage of choosing the Always option is that you can easily click and drag a scrollbar’s thumb to rapidly scroll through a window. This is the ‘When scrolling’ option that appears above the Always option. Do this, and the scrollbars appear and then fade away once you stop dinking around with the trackpad. If you use a trackpad instead, scrollbars will show only when you place your pointer within a window that should show scrollbars, and manipulate the trackpad. This is the Always item that you see in the list of options. If you enable the first option-’Automatically based on mouse or trackpad’-the scrollbars will always show when you use a mouse with your Mac.
And the sometimes is what counts in the ‘Show scroll bars’ setting. Those scrollbars now display gray thumbs-sometimes. Those arrow buttons are gone, as are the blue thumbs, though scrollbars remain. They contained not only blue bars (called thumbs) that you could drag up and down to scroll through a window, but also small arrow buttons that caused the window to scroll in small increments with each click. Scrollbars: If you’re new to the Mac with Lion or Mountain Lion, you may not be aware that at one time the Mac’s scrollbars were always visible.
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