I really like that OS X includes Screen Sharing, but I hate that Apple strips out a lot of important features in the free version (such as Full Screen support). I enabled (most of) the features of the full-fledged Apple Remote Desktop in the free, crippled Screen Sharing app. Apple used nearly the same executable for both and simply removed the functionality from the UI in Screen Sharing. Fixing this was a simple process: I opened up the nib inside the application bundle, added a new overlay window, created some buttons, and linked them to the already defined actions in the executable for features like full screen viewing.

It seems that Apple has prevented you from doing this in the latest version of OS X by compiling the nib files inside the application bundle. There might be a way around this, we’ll see!

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