Re: quit the dock - possible?
Re: quit the dock - possible?
- Subject: Re: quit the dock - possible?
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:24:09 +0100
on 23/6/04 12:28 pm, email@hidden at email@hidden wrote:
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On 23 juin 04, at 17:28, Paul Skinner wrote:
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> I failed to mention that this script needs to be a stay open app. If
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> not, as soon as the OS notices that 'Dock.app' isn't running it will
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> relaunch the original Dock. The idle is set to an increment intended
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> to reduce the app's load on the system.
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> The default ide-return value for a stay-open app is 1 second IIRC.
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sorry, i did not read the beginning of the thread but i actually had to
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radically kill the dock yesterday and this worked:
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in terminal:
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a 'top' to find the dock pid
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a 'grep' to get that number
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a 'kill -9' that pid to kill the dock
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et voila, le dock is dead !
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now you only have to put that in an applescript :)
Wow, what a great idea!
I've written the script for you:
repeat
set kDock to do shell script "top -l 1 | awk '/Dock/ { print $1 }'"
do shell script "kill " & kDock
delay 2
end repeat
Maybe you'd need to attach a text file with a warning to people who suffer
from epilepsy...
And a warning about productivity problems...
And find out if there is actually a limit on the PID value...
And... :-)
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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