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Thanks, icemanjc, but "Open at Login" is not set in the Dock icon for any of the open Terminal windows that I use. And yet, when I restart, they do reopen at Login, anyway. This is a Lion-only problem, by the way. It didn't occur under Snow Leopard. Is there a way to keep the Terminal icon...

In Lion, if I issue a Restart, all my Terminal windows get reopened after restarting, even if I uncheck the box next to Reopen windows after logging back on. These Terminal windows get reopened right after I manually reopen my first Terminal window after restarting. Therefore, I think that...

Ah! I didn't notice the Mission Control icon in the Dock. I see now that I can use it to switch Spaces, as you have pointed out. I wish I could get it (or something like it) into the status bar at the top, but until (unless) that is ever possible, I can live with it in the dock. Thank you...

Up through Snow Leopard, I was able to use a 3rd-party program called Hyperspaces to switch Spaces with the mouse, using a drop-down menu in the menu bar. However, now that I am running Lion, the entire Spaces system has changed and I can no longer run Hyperspaces. I want to be able to switch...

Thanks. I didn't know about that document. Sadly, the dscl . -list Computers | grep -v "^localhost$" command yields no results, so the while loop that these results get piped into does nothing. However, the problem got solved after I sent a HUP signal to mDNSresponder. Why this didn't...

I'm running the latest version of Snow Leopard. I manage my own DNS (on a non-MacOSX server), and three days ago, I changed the IP addresses for a few domains that I control. Within 48 hours after doing so, the new DNS entries showed up on all my hosts except my MacOSX host. The hosts...

Ah! Thanks. I didn't think about Folder Actions. This will probably do the job for me. .

Is there any way under Snow Leopard to configure Launch Services to launch a program whenever a new file appears in a specified directory? I know how to do this "manually" by writing a daemon to watch the directory, but if there's a way to make this happen via Launch Services, I'd rather do...

Forgive me if I missed the answer to this somewhere. I'm running Snow Leopard, and I make use of several different Spaces. I find it to be quite annoying that when I close an application, I often get zapped over to another Space. I think it's the Space in which the most-recently-invoked...

OK. Well, I came up with a way to do it. First of all, I created a directory called bin under my HOME. Then, in that directory, I put the following shell script into a file called changeIcon: #!/bin/sh...

I thought of a possibility: is there a way to change a file's associated icon via a command-line procedure (i.e., in a Terminal session)? If so, I could do this: find ~ -name '*.mov' | while read item do [mysterious command] "${item}" done ... where [mysterious command] is the command which...

I have recently changed all my movie files on my Snow Leopard system to be launchable by QuickTime Player 7 instead of QuickTime Player X [see note below]. For various historical reasons, these movie files have a variety of icons associated with them. I'd like to run some sort of utility which...

Well, I agree that it's a lot of hassle. Also, I have just now modified that message because I was wrong, after all. I incorrectly tested my procedure and thought it was working, when it actually wasn't. I have now completely removed the procedure from that message, because it's not only...

Well, I figured out one way to modify QuickTime Player Launcher so that it now launches QuickTime Player 7 ("QT 7") instead of QuickTime Player X ("QT X"). This is a hacky way to do it, in that involves making a modification to the QuickTime Player Launcher executable. ... post edited and lots...

I issued the strings command against the QuickTime Player Launcher executable, and it shows that both the string "com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX" and the string "com.apple.quicktimeplayer" are embedded within that executable. This leads me to believe that there might be some logic internal to that...

Hmm ... I'll try that a little later, but my guess is that it won't work, because the system probably goes by the bundle identifier (com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX and com.apple.quicktimeplayer for versions X and 7, respectively), instead of the app name. But it's still worth a try. Thanks! .

In Snow Leopard, I notice that videos which were formerly launched by QuickTime Player in Leopard are now launched by an application called QuickTime Player Launcher. This launcher then causes these videos to actually be launched by the new QuickTime Player X. I understand all about how...

I'm using 10.6.1. I'm noticing that in Finder list views, if I modify a file or directory, the info about this item (modification date, etc.) doesn't get updated in the Finder unless I close the enclosing folder in the Finder and re-open it (by clicking on the arrow next to the enclosing folder...

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Is there a way to tell Snow Leopard that when a certain app is running, its icon should not be put into the dock? I'd like this to occur only for this one, single app, not for any other apps, whose icons I still would like to see in the dock when they're running. If this isn't possible, no...