Re: quit the dock - possible?
Re: quit the dock - possible?
- Subject: Re: quit the dock - possible?
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:08:40 -0400
On Jun 22, 2004, at 7:08 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
At 10:24a -0400 06/21/2004, Paul Skinner didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
set p to (path to startup disk as text) &
"System:Library:CoreServices:Dock.app:"
Or...
tell app "Finder" to set p to application file id "dock" as string
Could use "com.apple.dock" instead of "dock" if you're paranoid.
on idle
return 60
end idle
Whassat accomplish?
I believe that what this is doing is creating an application with the
same name as the Dock, running it, and then quitting the real Dock.
Then it stays open forever so that when whenever the system checks to
see if the Dock is still running the system will see the fake Dock
application and it won't launch the real one.
It's clever. It relies on the fact that apparently Mac OS X checks to
see if the Dock is running by name rather than by process id and that
it doesn't check to make sure that the Dock it finds is the true Dock.
So the blank idle loop is just there to keep the stay-open applet open.
Every 60 seconds the idle loop is activated, does nothing , and then
sleeps for 60 more seconds. It probably uses next to no CPU or memory.
- Ken
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