Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Ways to hide applications in OS X If you're looking for ways to focus better on your work, taking advantage of Apple's application-hiding features may help. Topher Kessler. May 16, a. Right-clicking the Dock icon will reveal options for hiding the program.
Hidden programs arrow will appear translucent in the Dock. Select Hide All Apps in the Preferences to do this. Then click Record Shortcut and choose your key combination to set. From there, either click Hides in the menu bar and choose Hide All Apps or just use your keyboard shortcut.
All your windows will click vanish from the desktop. This time, click the switch on the left that turns on Single App Mode. Single App Mode essentially only lets you use one application at a time and it will automatically hide the rest.
If you decide you only want to see Safari but then attempt to open Messages, the Messages window will open and Safari will automatically minimize. Hides lets you pick a keyboard shortcut to enable Single App Mode too, so take advantage of that if you want quick access. Active Oldest Votes. The choices that you have on OS X are: Run as a daemon as described in the above-linked post Run in Terminal as a unix executable Create a minimal OS X application wrapper and run as an OS X Application In most cases, you can create a wrapper for a unix-style executable by creating the appropriate Bundle using the instructions from Apple's Bundle Programming Guide skip over the iOS stuff and look at the Mac bundle information.
The basic directory structure is: MyApp. Improve this answer. After investigating a lot, it seems this is the only way. For my application, things get more complicated because it saves files to one of its internal folders. So I guess Ill have to create a wrapper to my file libraries and save it somewhere else in case of a mac. Thanks for the answer. Yes, that's a bit of a problem on a Mac. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.
Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. This worked great. I wanted to open Mail every 15 minutes so I created a script in Applescript Editor that looks like this:. Go to your Finder and in your Applications folder is your new file "Mail every 15". You'll see a file named Info. You can duplicate this document and edit the duplicate.
Only the duplicate will include your changes. Go ahead and duplicate it and make the 2 line change with the insert. Save the file to your desktop as Info. Your Finder should still be open, if not, reopen it by repeating step 3. Rename the original file, I named it Info-A. I'm sure you could just move the file to trash but I didn't want to take chances.
I Swapped places with the files Moved Info.
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