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Always keep an application open
This is great. Thanks for posting. Now would there be a way to keep the application hidden?
Always keep an application open
There is, already. Read this: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?LSUIElement
Always keep an application open
Thanks for the suggestion. This is quite technical. I am in no way a developer and got lost in the instruction. I was hoping for a simple solution like the one presented in this hint. I don't mind having the icon showing the application open in the dock but would like to hide the window.
Always keep an application open
Maybe this explanation can help, if you want to hide dock icon. (From here: http://growl.info/documentation/hardwaregrowler.php)
Always keep an application open
Not directly through launchd; but then again, I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, so maybe I'm misunderstanding the question. what app are you talking about, and what do you want hidden?
Always keep an application open
I remotely connect to my computer at home with an application called TeamViewer. When TW launches it opens a window which provide login information. If you close that window, TW quits. You can't keep the application open without the window.
Always keep an application open
Badly designed port of a windows app. You should write the developers and tell them that this is un-Mac-like behavior and they should fix it.
Always keep an application open
"you could password the account if you really wanted to"
Always keep an application open
You'd be surprised. I'm always seeing people over in the forums who share their user accounts with friends, college roommates, random acquaintances. People, I swear…
However, If you're already sharing a user account with your family (and I assume this is a desktop that doesn't travel out of the house where other people could get physical access), then putting a password on your work account would just be to keep your kids/spouse out of it - it wouldn't really be needed for security reasons (unless you're worried about someone breaking into your house late at night so they could update their facebook page). That being said, if you're going to have an account with no password, do not under any circumstances make it an administrator account or put it on the sudoers list. That would just be dumb.
Always keep an application open
Actually, this is a common behavior for applications that won't open more than one window at a time. For instance, Apple's own iPhoto, System Preferences, Dictionary and Calculator will quit on closing the window.
Always keep an application open
Thanks for the suggestion. This is quite technical. I am in no way a developer and got lost in the instruction. I was hoping for a simple solution like the one presented in this hint. I don't mind having the icon showing the application open in the dock but would like to hide the window.
Always keep an application open
Google the system preferences app Do Something When - I think you can set that up to automatically run a script to hide the app when it's launched.
Always keep an application open
I installed this Preference Pane. You can set it to open a document or an app when an app is launched (no option to run a script as such). I am not familiar with applescripts but managed to create an app with Automator that hides the window after launching TeamViewer. It does what I wanted to do. I am an happy camper now! Thanks tedw and everybody else for the kind and appreciated inputs.
Always keep an application open
I thought keeping and hiding an app is easier to carry out with an AppleScript app. An icon more in your Dock, though.
(* ApplicationHider Keeps an application running. Hides it, when not in use. Paste into AppleScript Editor. Save as an application with 'Stay open' ticked. Add the script app to your login items in System Preferences. Tuomas Rosberg 2011 *) property appName : "" property firstRun : false on run if firstRun is false then -- this script app hasn't been opened set anApp to choose application -- launches and returns item application set appName to name of anApp set firstRun to true else -- firstRun is true in subsequent runs, continue to idling end if end run on idle tell application "System Events" if exists of application process appName then if frontmost of application process appName is false then set visible of application process appName to false end if else -- the app process does not exist tell application "Finder" to launch application appName end if end tell return 3 -- seconds to idle end idle |
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