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Can you run any applications in the background?
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Without having them show up in the Dock, I mean? For example, is there any way to run TextEdit, yet not have it show up in the Dock? Any help appreciated, thanks.
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Standard GUI apps, no, I don't think so. Just by their nature and how they're built, you can't "fool" the OS into NOT putting something in the dock.
What are called "headless" apps, yes. However, these apps are like the Apache daemon and "ls -l" and things you're probably not thinking of.
X apps under X11 probably won't since they're running under X11.
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That is friggin' awesome. It worked. Thanks a lot for the help, duders. Perrrrfect.
Edit: I tried it on Chess.app. Only problem is, it also does not display a menu for that application. I can deal with that, I suppose. 
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Darn, the application I wanted to try it on doesn't have a "show package contents" option. I think because it's Carbon. Hmm. 
Here's another question if anyone's interested:
How do I write an applescript that tells an application to hide itself? What would I write, since I'm AppleScript inept? And how about some good AppleScript resources, eh, so I can stop bugging all of you?
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Originally posted by MindFad:
How do I write an applescript that tells an application to hide itself? What would I write, since I'm AppleScript inept? And how about some good AppleScript resources, eh, so I can stop bugging all of you?
Try this:
tell application "Finder" to set visible of process "Mail" to false
(substitute whatever application name you want for "Mail" here)
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Awesome, thanks.
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Originally posted by MindFad:
Darn, the application I wanted to try it on doesn't have a "show package contents" option. I think because it's Carbon. Hmm.
Then it should have a 'plst' resource that's basically the same as the Info.plist file and you should be able to edit that in ResEdit (probably by opening with the TEXT template).
I didn't try that though.
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Huh. That's interesting. Dangerous, but interesting.
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