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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition
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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

by Keir Thomas
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Tip 2Turn Off Irritating “Rubber-Band” Scrolling

You might have noticed that if you scroll to the top or bottom of a document or web page within some OS X apps like TextEdit, the page continues to scroll a little into a boundary area, before springing back. This is known as rubber-band scrolling and, depending on your point of view, can be rather annoying.

Deactivating Rubber-Band Scrolling in Most OS X Apps

To turn it off in most applications, all you need to do is open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder), and type the following, before logging out and back in again:

 
defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0

To reactivate ...

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