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Use different home directories for GUI and shell access
Authored by: gshenaut on Jan 04, '05 01:42:46PM

It's not clear to me why it's a problem to see /usr and so on in the finder. I sometimes have found it useful to use the finder in those directories. Perhaps it's a matter of aesthetics, in which case an alternate approach might be to give those directories the "darwin - hexley" icon, which would make it clear that those directories "belong" to darwin rather than to the GUI.

I tried this, and the only minor annoyance was that you have to first give yourself write permission on the target directories using whatever means you choose, and then put them back the way they were after adding the icon.

Greg Shenaut



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