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Defeat command-tab app switching in OS 9 and OS X
Authored by: Thom on Oct 06, '03 10:11:10AM

Sorry if it's slightly OT -- because I prefer InDesign over Quark (and am a PageMaker user from way back) and LOVE cmd-tab switching.

I have to say that Proteron's LiteSwitch is indeed hard to beat -- in v2.0 they even threw in an 'exclude list' of apps that should never show up when you switch -- but I wish it also had Keyboard Maestro's 'commonly used apps' list... e.g. if you have five favorite apps, three of which are already running, and you switch... then by hitting a modifier key to toggle 'favorite apps', the remaining two unlaunched apps will appear at the end of the row. Fastest and most comprehensive way to launch an app that wasn't open, for me.

Then again, it's not such a big deal anymore since I found out about LaunchBar.


Thom



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Defeat command-tab app switching in OS 9 and OS X
Authored by: cosmo64 on Mar 03, '04 09:10:58PM

Well, I installed PullTab and the Application Enhancer... which worked fine, but killing cmd-tab in OS9 wasn't as simple. That applescript to modify the keyboard shortcuts (I used to use it all the time in my 0S 9 days) didn't work, because "the Application Switcher could not be found". Sure enough, it's nowhere on my system. (I guess it actually makes sense that Apple would remove it since it's overridden by switching features of X, which is always running above OS 9 anyway.) I'm wondering how the earlier poster found it!

Also, I was under the impression that you can no longer boot up into OS 9. I'm in X 10.2.8 and I don't see how it would be done... am I missing something?



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