Cool little thing I found... (try this its awesome!)

[john_satc]

I found this little thing on another mac site, try this -

Minimize an app whilst holding down shift Halfway though type the following into the terminal -

killall Dock

u will like it!

 

[mduser63]

Pretty cool, thanks for the tip. I'm surprised that the window continues to work, but it works just as you'd expect.

 

[powerbook911]

This is very cool indeed. Thanks John.

 

[ksz]

Windows remain live during exposé animations and suprisingly they remain live during the (suspended) Genie effect as you've just shown. Very cool.

 

[buryyourbrideau]

i type it in but nothing happens, it just minimizes the window really slowly ?

 

[john_satc]

i type it in but nothing happens, it just minimizes the window really slowly ?

you do press enter after typing it, right?

I love this feature, i tried it whilst watching a video and the video continues playing like normal but all distorted (like people with long faces)

 

[buryyourbrideau]

*worked haha

 

[russed]

humm, that was just odd!

 

[DaveinJapan]

Okay, so now I've got iMovie stuck halfway into the dock...what do I do to fix it (I don't have to force quit, do I?).

 

[DaveinJapan]

And while we're on the subject...

Is there a shortcut for minimizing/maximizing documents (like with the Genie effect)? Or do you always have to point and click?

 

[mkrishnan]

Is there a shortcut for minimizing/maximizing documents (like with the Genie effect)? Or do you always have to point and click?

In most applications, Apple-M minimizes, but there is no key that I know of to unminimize...oddly Apple-Shift-M doesn't do it.

Speaking of which...is it new to Tiger, that if you minimize several windows, say Preview windows, and then you hide Preview (perhaps with some still displaying at the time), that in addition to hiding visible windows, it also disappears the minimized ones from the dock (until you re-focus Preview, unhiding it)? I didn't play around with minimize that much during Panther, using hide mostly, but recently, I've found it useful for Preview and multiple PDFs. And this makes it even more usable.

 

[DaveinJapan]

I see. Thanks!

 

[Apple]

after you do this to get the window up again just click on it then press "cmd+m" Then click the icon in the dock.

 

[mad jew]

Speaking of which...is it new to Tiger, that if you minimize several windows, say Preview windows, and then you hide Preview (perhaps with some still displaying at the time), that in addition to hiding visible windows, it also disappears the minimized ones from the dock (until you re-focus Preview, unhiding it)? I didn't play around with minimize that much during Panther, using hide mostly, but recently, I've found it useful for Preview and multiple PDFs. And this makes it even more usable.

That was in Panther too.

 

[katie ta achoo]

after you do this to get the window up again just click on it then press "cmd+m" Then click the icon in the dock.

Did anyone else have a funny-shaped icon when it was minimized?
like.. it was halfway through the genie effect, but an icon?

Cool little trick.

KT:"help me, apple genius! I dun broke-d my dock!"
genius bar: "you're a moron"

Just another day at the genius bar.

 

[swheeler]

Did anyone else have a funny-shaped icon when it was minimized?
like.. it was halfway through the genie effect, but an icon?

Yeah I think that's my favorite part

 

[efoto]

Nice little trick, thanks.
Its yet another way to show off an amazing OS