Quicksilver and Snow Leopard Finally work hand in hand!

UPDATED.

While B57 is out for Snow Leopard, This B54 is still the best built for Snow Leopard in terms of performance issues.


Finally, the Quicksilver is back in my Snow Leopard faster than ever! I’m disabling Google Quick Search Box for now. B56a7 will work on your Snow Leopard machine, but most of the features won’t play well on it or slow.

Here is the tricks.

First you have to download 2 versions from http://blacktree.com/, the B54 and B56a7

If you have previous installation, I recommend to delete them all:

~/Library/Cache/com.blacktree.Quicksilver

~/Library/Preferences/com.blacktree.Quicksilver.plist

~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver

Now,

Install the B56a7. It will crash when you open in, don’t worry. Just go to

Quicksilver.app > Show Package Content > Content > QSDefaults.plist (double click it, it will open the Property List Editor app)

Look for Use effect at the bottom, and uncheck (disable), save and close the Property List Editor app.

Now, open the Quicksilver.app, and you should see the welcome screen. Edit the preferences, this is very important, since you won’t see this preferences screen next time.

After everything is setup, close Quicksilver, and replace the Quicksilver.app with version B54 and say yes to use this version when the system asks.

Now, you have a working Quicksilver. You can edit Catalogs, Trigers, Plug-ins using this version (B54), but not the preference.

If in any case you want to edit the preferences, you need to move the Quicksilver.app to different place, and put the B56a7 inside /Applications folder and edit the preference using this version, after that, you need to put back (replace) the B56a7 with B54 again.

Here is the plug-ins that works for me:

QS on SL

When the plug-in causes you a crash, just go to: ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/PlugIns/ and delete that plugin.

Thanks for reading, hope it works for you.

Note: ~/ means under you home directory

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Guid0October 28th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

After using this method for a day now it still seems pretty flaky. Lots of crashes and I now can’t get to the triggers pane anymore, just catalog and plug-ins so any new triggers needs reinstalling the fixed b56a7. Also the bezelHUD interface which looks so ‘OS X’y’ causes it too crash. guess it’s back to hoping for a stable SL version some time.

santanaOctober 29th, 2009 at 7:17 am

@Guid0
bexelHUD won’t work on snow leopard. The developer says no more update for the SL. It’s sad. Try to use the built in interface.

LindseyNovember 3rd, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Thanks! Brilliant! Can’t live without QS.

HizkiaNovember 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm

i try this method and it works great. but i cannot use the bezel UI,do you know how to fix this problem?

Sandy TanamasNovember 3rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm

@Hizkia, here is the information regarding Bezel HUD, I just copied from google groups:

I don’t use bezelHUD myself, so I think this information is what you need. Hope it helps

—– begin copied ——–
> Yes. Everything works as it did before
> snow leopard. The bezelHUD
> interface doesn’t work with it though.
> Unfortunately.

There was an updated version of BezelHUD created for b56a7. I was using it and it prevented b54 from launching.
Is it possible that you installed that one at some point?
I downloaded the original BezelHUD from Julius Eckert and it’s working fine in b54.

David HansenNovember 4th, 2009 at 5:34 am

thank you soooo much Sandy Tanamas.
I almost freaked out here.. hehe..

again, thank you

JonathanNovember 5th, 2009 at 12:56 am

Absolute briliant! I thought I never ever use QS again. Thanks! This tips is the best tips for me for years!. I have tried B56a7 on Snow, but it gave me so much trouble for advance usage, but this method has made me back to QS. I ‘ve also diabled QSB from Google :)

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