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10.3: Switch apps without showing or using the dock
I bought my iBook from a Spaniard, so it's got the Spanish keyboard. The ~ key gets used A LOT by me in the command line (it's a shortcut for your home directory, and you basically can't write Perl without using the tilde), so I had to hunt around to find it.
On the Spanish iBook keyboard, there is a key next to the left [shift] key labelled [ < / > ] (that is, the < less than and > greater than characters, with < over >). I'm using the US keyboard layout, and it treats this key as a ~ instead of a < or > (those characters are over by the right [shift] key, like on a US keyboard).
This may be more cumbersome than helpful, but if you need to produce that character on a Spanish (portable) keyboard, it may make sense to go into the International settings in System Preferences, and turn on the USA keyboard mapping in addition to Spanish. You'll end up with a menubar icon with the Spanish or American flag, and can toggle between them. In the US keyboard layout, the ~ should be either with the [ < / > ] key on a portable (you may have to hit [shift] as well, I forget at the moment), or it may be the almost-top left key on the keyboard, under the [esc] key, on a desktop keyboard -- or at least, that's the position of the key in the USA.
Hope this helps...
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