Mac OS X Lion Clean Install Quirks
I decided to do a clean install on my development laptop with Lion to clean out the cruft. Not that it really needed to be done, but I was curious to see if there were any discernible differences between the Snow Leopard (SL) upgrade and a clean install.
For those who are wondering, you can find a plethora of resources on how to do it if you so choose, but I did want to point out a few quirks that I ran into after the install. I’m not sure if these are environmental differences that I had adjusted a some point in the past, but when I re-installed a clean version of Lion a few things changed.
- Mission Control – By default, there’s really only one space. If you upgraded an existing SL installation and used spaces, it created them by default in MC. Furthermore, Control-UP activates MC. Control-Down does the old Exposé routine.
- Tap to Drag – I don’t remember the actual starting state of this but I checked on another laptop and my desktop with the Magic Trackpad and they were configured the same so I’m working under the assumption that this may affect a few people like myself. If you were used to the whole tap to drag routine, it’s not there — well technical it’s there but not active. Once you activate the tap to click, tap to drag doesn’t. And it’s not in the Trackpad preference pane either. Strangely enough, it’s tucked away under Universal Access/ Mouse & Trackpad/ Trackpad Options…
As I find more quirks I’ll update this post.
Enjoy.