Month: May 2016

This will be one of those ‘Duh, obviously’ type posts for most Mac native users, but for myself, being an ex-Windows admin for years before having anything to do with macs, I have always tended to use a Windows admin VM for when I needed things like an ssh session using ‘putty’, but more and more lately I am trying to streamline, so have been running with Terminal in Mac OS X more and more

However this presents me with some challenges sometime, like where’s that damn insert key? I have seen similar posts stating things like ‘ctrl+right arrow key’ will do it, but that doesn’t work for me as I have loads of separate desktops and this just jumps me between them.

So I found the following for remapping key functionality in terminal

• • In Terminal.app’s Preferences, go to ‘Settings’ and select ‘Keyboard’

<EDIT> The ‘Setting‘ tab under ‘Terminal Preferences’ has now changed to ‘Profiles‘ – not sure which release this happened in but I am running Mac OS X Mojave 10.14.3

• •  Find the Key you want to replace, I used the ‘F5’ key as on my external Apple Keyboard this key has no other secondary functions already, and change the default Action value to:

• \033[2~

You can obviously use any key you like and I’m sure there’s loads of other ways to do this, but I have found this works well for me

So, I was just doing some basic admin tasks using the vSphere Web Client, and I accidentally closed the recent tasks pane at the bottom,

that really threw me, I have never made that mistake before and it took me ages to work out how to get it back.
So if you are as dumb as me, or at least made the same mistake as I did, hopefully, this will help you out:

All you need to do is to reset the web client back to factory defaults, by clicking on the little arrow next to your login name, up in the top left of the page and select “Reset to Factory Defaults” you will have to log in again, and if you had moved the other objects around they will be reset too, but at least you get the recent tasks back

 

<Edit>
Thanks to Daniele Murrau who also informed me that if you want to just add the ‘Recent Tasks’ or ‘Alarms’ pane back, without performing a full ‘Reset To Factory Defaults’ you can do so by clicking on the ‘Layout Settings’ option and putting a tick back in the radio button box, shown below:

Useful if you have made other layout changes that you want to preserve as well as adding the missing pane(s) back