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Add a Show Desktop icon to the Dock
Authored by: Mac Berry on Nov 20, '09 09:08:48AM

I'll bet good money that I can get my mouse to the top right hot corner of my screen, AND then a second time, to show the desktop then bring the windows back, quicker than anyone can click on this icon, wait for the script to run, then click on the screen border.

I've argued against people criticizing hints just because they wouldn't use them themselves before now, but that applies to stuff that people may not spot otherwise. I'm pretty fed up with the number of "I know you can do it using the GUI, Terminal, the keyboard, gestures and goodness knows what else, but I know, write a script" type hints here lately.

Saying "write a script to do it" is NOT a hint. It's sharing a script you wrote! The only real hint is; keep scripting in mind when you want a better workflow, otherwise this won't stop until every single thing you can do on a Mac has a scripted method posted.

If Mac OSX Hints is to include these, then lets please have them in a separate "useful scripts" section.

Mark



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Add a Show Desktop icon to the Dock
Authored by: ordnanceelf on Nov 20, '09 09:54:40AM

In the Exposé System Preferences Pane, you can set up "Desktop" to be activated via a "hot corner".

Once activated, it can then be de-activated by moving the mouse back to the same corner.



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Add a Show Desktop icon to the Dock
Authored by: Mac Berry on Nov 20, '09 02:48:29PM

Yes, that's what I said ??



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