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- From: alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Get one more free dock entry under 3.0
- Keywords: Comnand-drag
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214921.3864@pencom.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:49:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.160202.6283@almserv.uucp>
- Sender: usenet@pencom.com (Usenet Pseudo User)
- Reply-To: alex@pencom.com
- Organization: Pencom Software
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- Bill:
-
- A safer thing to do may be to Command-drag the Recycler icon (or the icon of
- any executing application for that matter) off the dock.
-
-
- Best regards,
-
-
- Alex Duong Nghiem Phone: (512) 343-1111
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- In article <1992Dec21.160202.6283@almserv.uucp> bnixon@fnma.com (Bill Nixon)
- writes:
- > Ever need just one more free entry on your NeXTSTEP dock.
- > Well, here's one way to do it. I have only done this under
- > 3.0, so I am not sure if it will work on older versions.
- >
- > The trick is to move the Recycler icon off the dock. Here's
- > how:
- >
- > 1. Open a terminal session and type "dread -n DockPaths" at
- > the command line.
- >
- > This will return the current entries on your dock. Mine
- > looks like this:
- >
- > Workspace DockPaths "Workspace Manager;/NextApps/Preferences.app;
- > /NextApps/Mail.app;/NextApps/Librarian.app;/NextApps/Edit.app; ;
- > /NextDeveloper/Apps/ProjectBuilder.app;
- > /NextDeveloper/Apps/InterfaceBuilder.app;
- > /NextApps/Terminal.app; ; ; ;Recycler"
- >
- > (NOTE: the above will appear as one line, I added newlines
- > so the various news reader don't complain.)
- >
- > 2. Write out a new DockPaths entry without the Recycler
- > entry.
- >
- > dwrite Workspace DockPaths "Workspace Manager;/NextApps/Preferences.app;
- > /NextApps/Mail.app;/NextApps/Librarian.app;/NextApps/Edit.app; ;
- > /NextDeveloper/Apps/ProjectBuilder.app;
- > /NextDeveloper/Apps/InterfaceBuilder.app;
- > /NextApps/Terminal.app; ; ; ; "
- >
- > (NOTE: the above will appear as one line, I added newlines
- > so the various news reader don't complain.)
- >
- > 3. Logout and login again. You should have a blank entry
- > at the bottom of you dock and the Recycler icon will show
- > up at the bottom rightmost corner just like any normal
- > application icon.
- >
- > 4. I did the same thing with the Workspace Manager entry
- > and "it just worked". I got a free entry at the top of my dock.
- > But I didn't get a File Viewer and couldn't log out since I
- > couldn't get to the Workspace menu. Therefore I would NOT
- > recommend this.
- >
- > 5. Note that this is not supported by me, FannieMae or NeXT.
- > If you screw things up, it's all your fault...
- >
- > Bill
- > --
- > bnixon@fnma.com or ...!uunet!fnma.com!bnixon (NeXT Mail Okay)
- > Bill Nixon, Senior Programmer Analyst, Advanced Technology, 2H-4S
- > FannieMae, 3900 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 22016 (202) 752-5468
-