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Create a truly transparent Activity Monitor Dock icon
Authored by: jic2000 on Aug 08, '07 08:12:36AM

When I put "defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor CPUIdleColor -data `./a.out`" in the Terminal, it just gives me the standard output as if I had typed "defaults" and nothing else. I copied and pasted from the hint, so I know I didn't mistype anything. Is it something wrong with my comptuer?

When I run a.out by itself, it gives me this output:
040b747970656473747265616d8103e8840140848484074e53436f6c6f72008484084e534f626a6563740085840163018404666666660000000086n
I have no idea what that means, but I figured it might help to figure out my problem.



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Create a truly transparent Activity Monitor Dock icon
Authored by: myrkr on Aug 08, '07 08:51:15AM

Same thing here.

I have narrowed it down to the 'n' at the end of the string. 'n' is not a hex character, I think it should be a '\n'. That made it work for me.

It also works when I change '#if 1' to '#if 0' and remove the '-data' option.



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Create a truly transparent Activity Monitor Dock icon
Authored by: jic2000 on Aug 08, '07 09:00:12AM

Well, both of those made the command execute without an error, but my icon is still opaque.



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