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Authored by: jmb on Oct 08, '02 10:03:59PM

I'm the one who submitted this hint, and I swear I was logged in when I did so...

Anyway, yes, you get a dead desktop at login if your dock is dead. Can't click anything on the desktop, desktop image doesn't load, and you can't switch the image. The solution to this is to quickly launch and kill the dock. The desktop image will then load, and the

In principle, you should be able to kill the dock with a script at login, although it is spawned as a root process. Thus, killing would have to be done as 'sudo' command. The solution to this would be to move the Dock to somewhere like your app folder (such that it doesn't launch as a core service), then have your script invoke, then kill it. I guess you could also load it via the login items pref panel, then use a script to kill it. Either way, it would be launched as a user process, so it should be killable. The only remaining side effect would be that you can't re-switch the desktop image unless you re-launch the Dock. Not a big deal at all.

By the way, as of version 4.5, DragThing does slide-out drawers, so you can configure a process dock, complete with a trash can, set it to slide out along the bottom edge of your desktop, and have it float. This gives you the same functionality (in terms of viewing and switching between your running apps) as the dock, although you can't load it up with non-running apps, files, etc. You can always use a regular DragThing dock for this, though.

Enjoy,

jmb



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