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Authored by: thinkyhead on Mar 10, '02 09:00:22PM

Command-option-D is a menu shortcut, so if for some reason the Dock options are not in your Apple Menu then command-option-D won't do anything. When I first got FruitMenu I didn't enable the Dock options at first, and so it broke the command-option-D shortcut.

The fact that Apple has added system-wide menu shortcuts kind of bugs me, to tell you the truth. It bugs me equally that Internet Explorer would implement command-option-D as a menu shortcut and yet not include it in its menus. Another example of a non-standard implementation by MS, and a shortcut they're going to have to replace with something else.



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Authored by: betatest on Mar 11, '02 06:22:47PM

I'm running 10.1.3 and MS IE 5.1.3 on a PB G3 bronze (scsi). cmd-opt-D works for great for me. In fact, I was cursing Apple for not having included a keyboard shorcut for hiding the dock... my bad.

FYI, I am also running Fruit Menu and I DO NOT have the dock as one of the items in my customized Apple menu....

BTW, does anyone know of some way to DISABLE the cmd-tab app switcher? It's killing me in other (Classic) apps where this shortcut has been used for years (Quark, Illustrator 8+9, etc.).



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Authored by: thinkyhead on Mar 12, '02 02:48:23AM

I noticed that programs that *properly* implement a shortcut used by Apple - such as command-H or command-option-D - supercede the system-wide shortcut. For example, when running BBEdit the dock hiding shortcut goes away, because it is overridden by BBEdit's "Reveal Selection" command.



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