November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 316 | Make Only One Program Window Visible at a Time |
This is a tip for those who don’t find it easy to use computers (see also Tip 239, Make the Dock Show Only Running Programs). This tip makes only the currently active application window(s) visible at any given moment. Any other program windows are automatically hidden. You can switch between open applications as usual using the Dock.
To make this happen, open Terminal (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder), and type the following:
| | defaults write com.apple.dock single-app -bool TRUE;killall Dock |
The changes will take effect the next time you click the Dock icon. Click any ...
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