|
|
#1 |
|
Triple-A Player
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 92
|
Command-Tab Freedom!
You may have noticed that, as of Jaguar, the Dock is extremely greedy about the command-tab key combination. I recently posted a hint about freeing up command-tab for use with Keyboard Maestro (or any other app that might need it) by killing the Dock. See this hint for more information.
The main problem with this approach was that the Finder wasn't very happy without the Dock - on bootup or login, it would just beep when I tried to click things on the desktop. The way around this was to launch the Dock (I had it in a DragThing dock, so I didn't have to use the Finder). Once it was launched, you could kill it and all would be fine. The problem was that this was pretty inconvenient, and I wanted to automate it. To get around this problem, I moved the Dock to my /Applications/Utilities folder, then set it as the first item on my Login items list. I then wrote the following AppleScript: tell application "Dock" quit end tell I saved this as a compiled script, then set it as the last item on my Login items list. Now when I login in, the Dock launches briefly and then the script kills it. All is now well. I've tested it, and it works. Good luck, jmb |
|
|
|
|
|
#2 |
|
Hall of Famer
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: New York City
Posts: 3,032
|
So Apple has made it just a little harder to run OS X without the Dock, huh?
More charming things to look forward to if and when I ever upgrade from 10.1.5 to Jag. Thanks for the workaround tip. I'll remember that. |
|
|
|
|
|
#3 |
|
MVP
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,390
|
Nope
I get "Connection Invalid" when I run the script.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#4 |
|
Major Leaguer
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Bethesda, MD
Posts: 300
|
On the other hand, one could always set the keyboard command in Keyboard Maestro to option-tab and not go through all that trouble...
|
|
|
|
|
|
#5 |
|
Hall of Famer
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: New York City
Posts: 3,032
|
FileMaker gets Command-Tab and nothing will be allowed to take it away.
No docks. Absolutely no docks. I'll use 10.1.5 until hell freezes over if there's no way to run Dockless under Jag and whatever comes after it. |
|
|
|
|
|
#6 |
|
Major Leaguer
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Bethesda, MD
Posts: 300
|
You'd think OS X and FileMaker would play nice considering they're both developed by the same company (spin-off or not).
|
|
|
|
|
|
#7 |
|
Hall of Famer
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: New York City
Posts: 3,032
|
Would I be correct in assuming that one could still disable the Dock, launch it momentarily at startup (manually or as part of Startup Items), then process-kill it successfully, even if the abovementioned AppleScript doesn't do the job?
|
|
|
|
![]() |
|
|