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TimJWatts

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Jun 29, 2019
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Hi,

Is there a way to make a shortcut to an Application so that:

1) It opens a new instance aka "open -n"

2) You can give it an alternate icon and/or name in the Dock + Cmd+Tab switching.

An alternative: Can I have a script that is bound to a launcher icon and let that fire off new instances of apps via "open"?

I come from the linux world (where it's pretty simple to do this in XFCE4) and I want to be able to group sets of terminals and chrome windows into different spaces and also to be able to Cmd+Tab between them and see where I'm going. Pls excuse lack of knowledge - very new to Macs :)

Cheers - Tim
 
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