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spitty27 · May 24, 2003, 11:25 PM

I recently backed up my Dock from 10.2.6 and used the hacked dock from 6C48 and now have minimize in place enabled. When I seem to open some applications, it gives me the yellow exclamation badge (like the icon I used for this thread). Do you think the 6C48 dock is giving me they yellow icon to warn me I have clashing dock with system? Do any of you think I need to switch back?

zachs · May 24, 2003, 11:30 PM

The 6C48 Dock had a feature which displayed an alert badge on applications that weren't responding.

Unfortunatly, it's kinda buggy...for example, it'll show up on apps that take a little while to load, or are performing a long operation.

But it has nothing to do with compatibility.

spitty27 · May 24, 2003, 11:33 PM

Well it seems to only go the first time I open an Apple software. Like, I opened Safari - yellow badge, and then I opened it again, nothign happened. When I restarted - I got it on the Finder - quit finder and relaunched - nothing. If it only happens once, then im staying with the dock. I dont want to lose minimize in place but its also kinda nice to see which applications are not responding. Even so, I'm sure there's a hack for this...anyone know of anything to get rid of the badges?

zachs · May 24, 2003, 11:41 PM

/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app

Right-click and Show Package Contents, then navigate to:
/Contents/Resources

and delete the image named "AlertBadge" or something like that.

(You may need to login as root)

spitty27 · May 24, 2003, 11:45 PM

would deleting the alertbadge give some problems? would the dock.app be looking for something that it cant find and just break down and crash (lol i duno...)

spitty27 · May 24, 2003, 11:48 PM

BTW - [Person's Computer]/[ComputerName]/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/hung.png

zachs · May 24, 2003, 11:49 PM

would deleting the alertbadge give some problems? would the dock.app be looking for something that it cant find and just break down and crash (lol i duno...)

Nope.

I did the same thing when I had the 6C48 dock installed.

Go ahead.

spitty27 · May 24, 2003, 11:51 PM

thanks - one more tho...

i guess it replaced my trash icon from snow.e2 and gave me the original one (but it kept the snow.e2 finder icon??) ill go ahead and re-run the icontainer

spitty27 · May 25, 2003, 12:04 AM

gah!!! command clicking an app in the dock wont show it in the finder...it will only open it. and i lost the hide and hide others menus.

Phoenix1701 · May 25, 2003, 01:56 AM

And option-clicking on icons doesn't hide the app you came from either... that's why I switched back. Just wait for Unsanity.

mindwaves · May 25, 2003, 10:00 AM

Moving to the OS X forum.