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Problem with replacing dock
Authored by: monkeyangst on Jan 17, '02 11:40:27AM

I have tried in the past to replace the dock with DragThing (which does everything I need but minimization). However, what I've found is that the machine hangs at a blue screen when I try to log out. Has anyone else had this problem, and do you know of a way around it? It seems like the Finder is trying to tell the Dock something, and it may just be a preference or something that can be added to DragThing. Any ideas?



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Problem with replacing dock
Authored by: oem on Jan 18, '02 01:49:23PM

:(

yes you're right !
I didn't noticed because I don't restart a lot with my G4.
So I will accept this when I need hard working on graphic stuff (Using classic).
And when I can 'rest' a little, I'll put back the real Dock, so resart will work fine. Actually when I have to boot in Os9 that I love…I miss so much Os X, that I just think about one thing : reboot as soon as possible.
Now if someone find a way to insert something in Dragthing, then it will be beautifull.
Unless Apple finally provide a way to change this shortcut…?
I have also found an Apple page about those defaults shortcut…
http://developper.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/HIGUserInput/Keyboard_Fo_Navigation.html
but this didn't helped me to change the command-tab. I'm not a programmer at all :(



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Problem with replacing dock
Authored by: olwylee on Jan 18, '02 04:19:17PM

I would like to take this discussion a step further. I am using dragthing and it seems like every second logout or restart the dock sends back a -50 error, other times I get a messege telling me a file needs to be fixed, this morning was the worst, I have a brand new iMac 700 snow. 9 and x are on seperate partitions. when I started this morning it took almost five minutes before I was at full screen. I tried a restart and the -50 error came up again for dragthing, I ran first aid, zapped the pram, dumped prefs, ect, I got it to start up the way it should but on the next restart everything went screwy again. it seems that dragthing is the culprit but I have done all I know to fix it. Any help would be great.................a-mac@mac.com



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