I quickly found that there are a lot of people with this same gripe. Google is ripe with suggestions. Some of them manual keyboard re-mapping tricks, others suggesting the “Mac way” to achieve the same, and some with third-party software solutions. I went with the latter in this case.

There is a free program available called DoubleCommand, which allows you to remap the way your keyboard works with a number of pre-defined checkboxes. All you need to do in order to gain the “normal” Home and End functionality is to click a box and Activate the changes. Here are five steps you can follow to achieve Home and End normalfication.

1. Download DoubleCommand
2. Install by double-clicking on the .pkg file and following the prompts.
3. Launch DoubleCommand via: Apple > System Preferences > DoubleCommand
4. Select “PC style Home and End keys”
5. Save (System wide or User) and Activate

Next time you’re in a document and need to hit the beginning or end of a line, simply press fn-home/end and you’ve got the functionality the way you might expect it to work. Enjoy!

If you have any other solutions to this problem please share them in the comments. As they say, there is more than one way to skin a cat!

There are actually a number of solutions that I found. Some require third-party software. Others require creating dock icons to launch command-line tools. The solution I came up with requires no third-party software, custom dock icons or arthritis-inducing keyboard shortcuts. This uses easily configurable options that can also easily be undone if desired. I used Hot Corners.

If you’re not familiar with Hot Corners, it is the ability to use your mouse and the four corners of your desktop to achieve additional functionality. I use my upper-right hand corner to launch Spaces. The lower-right for Expose (All Windows). I’ve now added the lower-left to launch my Screensaver. By configuring my machine to activate the screensaver when the mouse is in the lower-left corner of the screen I am easily able to lock my screen when I need to be away from the computer. I simply drag the mouse down, screensaver turns on (which requires a password to unlock, of course) and I’m golden.

To activate this feature, do the following:

1. Click Apple > System Preferences > Desktop and Screensaver
2. In the lower left corner of that window you’ll find a button that says “Hot Corners”. Select that and then select one of the four corners to “Start Screensaver”.

As I mentioned before, there are other solutions to this problem, but this is the solution that I found the least complicated or difficult to setup. Do you have another solution that you consider easier? Let us know in the comments.

sudo find / -iname "*.lproj" -and ! -iname "en*" -print0 | tee /dev/stderr | xargs -0 rm -rfv


Can anyone suggest making this command any more efficient?  Just looking at it (without testing) I may have tried something like this:

sudo find / -iname "*.lproj" -and ! -iname "en*" -exec rm -rf {} \;