Thread-topic: Printer "quit behavior" in Tiger vs. Leopard
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On 11/14/07 12:35 PM, "Michael R Sweet" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Jeremy Reichman wrote:
>> Support staff have mentioned to me that there seems to be a change in the
>> "quit behavior" of printer queues that appear in the Dock between Tiger and
>> Leopard -- and perhaps even between earlier versions of Tiger and later
>> versions (or perhaps computer-specific releases, like the iMac aluminum's)
>> of that OS.
>>
>> Specifically, in Tiger, printer queues would appear in the Dock and then
>> quit (disappearing from the Dock) when printing was done. If the printer
>> queue was brought to the foreground, it stayed open. In later Tiger versions
>> and Leopard, the print queues stay open until quit manually. There is also
>> an option in the Dock menu, I'm told, for them to quit when finished.
>>
>> Is this the behavior we should be expecting? Did it change in Tiger, as we
>> believe we've seen? Did it change, or change further, in Leopard? Has it
>> been documented so we know what to expect?
>
> The default behavior *did* change, but you can restore the old
> behavior from the dock menu by checking the "Auto Quit" item...
Did it change for late-version Tiger as well?
And is this a per-queue setting, or a global setting for all queues? Is it
per-user?
Is there a programmatic way to change it -- perhaps with `defaults`?
I just haven't seen this in any feature lists or release notes, and I wish
this kind of thing would be written down somewhere.
Thanks!
--
Jeremy Reichman
Senior Desktop Systems Engineer
Information and Technology Services
Rochester Institute of Technology
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