In this release, you can access commonly used preferences and settings panels via the Apple Menu. The User Preferences submenu contains preference panels that only affect the current user. The Computer Settings submenu contains settings that apply to all users of the machine. Not all available preferences and settings may appear in the submenus. To see a complete list of user preference panels, select More Preferences from the User Preferences submenu. Similarly, to see a complete list of computer settings panels, select More Settings from the Computer Settings submenu.
The Desktop pattern selection user interface is greatly improved over the DR2 release. To quickly browse through all of the patterns using the keyboard, press Tab until the keyboard focus is on the pattern list. Press the up and down arrows to browse through the patterns.
To add your own personal patterns to the pattern list, create a DesktopPatterns folder in your home Library folder (~/Library). Any TIFF images that you place in the DesktopPatterns folder will appear in the pattern list.
The Network Time tab pane is not completely functional. If Network Time Synchronization is off, clicking the Start button will not turn it on, although the user interface will indicate otherwise. Network Time Synchronization will be activated the next time you restart, however.
To remove an item from the Login Items window, you need only drag it out of the white area. You need not drag it all the way to the trash. In fact, dragging to the trash is not recommended as this action will cause the system to move the actual item to the trash.
Changes to the color depth and resolution of your monitor will not take effect until you log out. By default, only the recommended resolutions are shown in the resolution list. Recommended resolutions are those resolutions that the system has determined are supported by your monitor. The system is not aware of all types of monitors, however, and may sometimes only show a severely limited subset of resolutions as recommended.
To enable the Show All resolutions feature, you can issue the following command in Terminal.
The Multiple Monitors panel appears in the Computer Settings list of the Preferences & Settings window only when you have multiple monitors attached to your system. With the Multiple Monitors panel, you can arrange how the monitors are positioned relative to each other, and you can specify a main monitor. The main monitor is the monitor on which the login window and menu bar appear.
The Multiple Monitors panel is disabled by default on Power Macintosh computers because of a potential conflict with the Monitors & Sound control panel in the Mac OS environment.
Adventurous users can enable the Multiple Monitors panel by issuing the following command in Terminal:
The Network panel now supports configuration of multiple network ports. Changes to the DNS search domains, name server addresses, FTP Server, Telnet Server, and IP Forwarding take effect immediately. All other changes require a restart to take effect.
The following issueshave been identified. When reporting bugs against the Preferences application, please identify the affected control panel and explicitly associate the bug with the installed release.
Issue | The Keyboard Panel does not type the correct extended characters in the text edit field. This also occurs in the Keyboard Panel invoked from the Localization Preference. |
| Problem | In the Keyboard Panel, some key caps are left highlighted when you type quickly in mixed case. This also occurs in the Keyboard Panel invoked from the Localization Preference. |
These known issues with the Date and Time Preferences option also apply to the System Date & Time Settings panel in the Clock application.
| Issue | Not all time zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo are shown in the pop-up menu. |
Description | Do not attempt to manually set the /etc/localtime symbolic link to a time zone not shown in the pop-up menu. |
Issue | The time field stops ticking when the system time is set to an earlier time using the BSD date command. |
Workaround | Click on any day in the calendar. This causes the Revert and Set buttons to become enabled. Click the Revert button. |
Issue | If you use the keyboard navigation keys (tab, backtab and the arrow keys) to change the slider values, Preferences does not save the settings to the persistent user-defaults database. Thus, when you log out and log back in again, the values you had set in the previous session are not saved. |
| Workaround | Use the mouse to change the slider values. |