On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Terry Graham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Helped a friend set up her first MAC (a 9500)
> and new to me was the pop-out Control Strip.
>
> It was upper left and I thought it should be lower
> as it confuses her by obscurring her Eudora Pro buttons.
>
> Yesterday I got my first PPC ever - a 9500, by coincidence -
> and the Strip is lower left.
>
> I can't find the positional option;
> Is there one?
Although I'm pretty sure you know how to move it by now I thought I'd
add a few notes about it.
The Control Strip is a cool gadget originally conceived by Apple for
keeping all their laptop control options in (battery, sleep etc.). It is
not installed by default in OSs prior to 8.0 IIRC but you can select it
in 'custom install'. I use it on all my Macs (even my SE/30s which run
7.1) and it works in any OS back to 7.0 AFAIK. You can copy it to a
pre-7.5 OS by copying the 'Control Strip' control panel and the folder
'Control Strip Modules' to the computer you want it on. There are lots
of funky third party modules for it too, it's kinda like an OS X Dock
for the 90s :). Som modules don't work on desktops as they are
PowerBook/iBook only but most do, including a strip module for Sleeper
(I think nearly everyone uses this on 68ks don't they?). The standard
abbreviation for them is CSM.
I suggest you propagate it to all your old Macs, it;s really useful, you
can set it up in the CP to hide on key press (usually Ctrl-Cmd-S) if you
have small screen so it doesn't get in the way as it often tends to in
MS Office.
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