very nice hint! while I do like the new default behavior personally, it's always good to have an option to switch to the old one.

thanks but prefer the improved behavior, the old way drove me nuts!

Since Screen Sharing in 10.5 lost it's Bonjour and toolbar hacks in a recent update, I was hoping this hint might also apply to us Leopard users. I would actually like to use Cmd-Tab switching remote machines. Unfortunately, the latest Screen Sharon app (v 1.0.3) under Leopard does NOT appear to forward special keystrokes to the remote machine. Then I tried this hint in reverse (DoNotSendSystemKeys -bool NO), and it still does not seem to send them. Please correct me if I'm missing something.

Been waiting for this one. Big thank you!

I appreciate this tip as well.
For those of you that are on the fence, try having 3 or 4 remote sessions open and then try switching between them using Expose. You will find it hard to do. This defaults command also moves the Expose commands back to the system running ARD.
Perhaps you want to drag and drop a file to the remote session, once again Expose to the rescue, to find that file on the desktop, but not if you don't apply this "fix".
The last scenario, you are using ARD and need to switch to a different application, perhaps Evernote or TextEdit to find your list of actions, this is where command-tab works great.

I too prefer the new behavior. However, what is needed is an easy way to escape, via the keyboard, from the remote screen to the local.

I have found that Launchbar's double-tap (of the command key) to start a search does bring local Launchbar forward and thus activates local keyboard control. It doesn't seem to work every time and I'm not sure why it works, since command-space strictly goes to the remote screen, but it has been a partial workaround for me.

I was wondering if there was a keystroke for escaping to the local system. I do like the new behavior, but the only way I know to return keyboard focus to the local system is to find a bit of local desktop to click upon, which runs counter to my wish to have a full-screen Screen Sharing window. Are there any other ways to do this?

I'd like a quick swap command. I often screen share with a friend across the country to show off pictures and files about our current projects. I'd like to be able to share my screen, then at the press of a button flip over and share his screen. Having to disconnect and reconnect seems needlessly complex.


Sheldon

Outstanding hint.

I hate the new behavior. Command-tab is the only way to switch out of Screen sharing to the finder.

As usual, OS X Hints comes through with a solution. Thanks.

Unfortunately this hint doesn't work in OS X 10.7 anymore. Does anyone know how to achieve the same in OS X Lion?

Oh well. After applying 3.5.2 update the Command-Tab switching is stuck to the remote client again.
Convenience be damned... Apple gets it's way!

I figured out a solution for this when running Lion. Put the screen sharing into full screen mode. All the key strokes are sent to the remote machine except those that switch screens, in my case ctrl-LEFT ctrl-RIGHT. So use the key to switch back to the local machine and your keys are being sent to the local machine again. Switch back to the remote full screen and the keys are sent to the remote machine. Hope this helps someone.

I really hope someone can come up with another solution because I still find this highly annoying.