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Better way to restart the Dock
Using kill to restart the dock is not the best way to do it. This sends a signal to the process telling it to terminate as quickly as possible, without even giving it a chance to clean up. A bettert way is to run the following AppleScript command (from the script editor):
Re: Better way to restart the Dock
As far as I know you are actually slightly wrong.
Re: Better way to restart the Dock
I heard this somewhere else, not sure about it...
SIGHUP
Nope. HUP stands for "hangup". Many system apps *are* configured to reread their configuration files when they receive a hangup signal, thus appearing to stop and restart. But not everything is like that.
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this only works in apps that UNDERSTAND SIGNALS which most aqua aocoa/carbon/classic apps DON'T. try it. "killall Microsoft\ Word" and see if it saves your changes... |
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