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Keep dynamic System Prefs panels available at all times System
Some System Preference panes (such as Bluetooth and Ink) are dynamic, meaning they only appear as hardware is inserted, and disappear when it's removed.

Sometimes it's useful to keep them permanently; to do this, just drag the pane to the System Preferences toolbar. Once placed there, the pane will remain after the hardware has been removed.
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Keep dynamic System Prefs panels available at all times
Authored by: figz on May 20, '03 12:58:11PM

is there any way to resize the System Prefs window? now that i have the BlueTooth pane, it's gone to two rows. if it was bigger it could fit on one row. any ideas?



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resize the System Prefs window
Authored by: tak on May 20, '03 05:09:03PM

Quit the System Prefs, delete
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
and relaunch System Prefs. That should do the trick.



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Keep dynamic System Prefs panels available at all times
Authored by: slytle on May 20, '03 04:58:17PM

Does anyone know of a way to get them to show up without hardware attached? I would like to learn more about inkwell without having to get a tablet quite yet...



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Keep dynamic System Prefs panels available at all times
Authored by: robbieduncan on May 20, '03 05:31:25PM

Wow first attempt worked.

Add the line <string>com.apple.preference.ink</string> to the array with key TB Item Identifiers in the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

The start System Preferences (it is probably best to do this with System Preferences not running as Cocoa does not always flush the preferences when they are changes and may do it on app shutdown).



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get them to show up without hardware attached
Authored by: tak on May 20, '03 05:31:35PM

Quit System Prefs.

Edit ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist. Go to
-> Root
--> NSToolbar Configuration com.apple.PrefsToolbar
---> TB Item Identifiers
Replace two of the available strings (e.g com.apple.preference.network and com.apple.preference.startupdisk)
with com.apple.preference.ink and com.apple.preferences.Bluetooth

Restart System Prefs.



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