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You're a UNIX professional, live and breathe the command line, but you'd rather use a GUI text editor for coding instead of the raw and ugly vi or Emacs editors.

The Finder acts up, a terminal window is already open, and you'd like to be able to launch a GUI app that might help you diagnose the problem.

However, it's so darn cool and charming that one just aches to use it at any opportunity.Īctually, upon reflection, there are some useful scenarios for this technique. In my OS X career, I've only used this trick a handful of times.

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In this how-to I'll show you how to launch an OS X app from the command line with the open command.įirst off, I will admit this technique is fairly geeky. But with OS X and its Darwin core, there's often an elegant integration between the two.

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How To Maximize Window In Macbook ProblemsWhere in the world are Mac sales growing? Everywhere.In some flavors of Unix, you feel as if you've been cast into an alternate universe when you open a terminal window and work on the command line.

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Try to click on the zoom button in various applications to observe the behavior. You can now see the additional column and sidebar listings. Note that second is shown after clicking on the zoom button. Observe the first and second views closely. The example that follows is of a Finder window. A subsequent click will return the window it's prior size. A click of the zoom button will make a window large enough so that you will be presented a view to show the relevant information for that window. The name 'Zoom' is a bit misleading for the green button because the button not only zooms (or maximizes) but shrinks a window.

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Once a window is minimized to the Dock just click on it to bring back in full view. Note how it looks in the Dock when fully minimized. The example below shows the minimize of a Finder window to the Dock using the Genie Effect. The behavior is controlled by a Dock preference setting under System Preferences choices are 'Genie Effect' (default setting) and 'Scale Effect'. When you do this the window will find it's way to the right side of the Dock and will show up as a very small window. You can minimize a window by clicking on the yellow button. Additional single window examples include Calculator, Dictionary, and DVD Player to name a few. Single window applications on the other hand will quit. You can verify this behavior using several different methods in Mac OS X for example, by looking under the application's icon in the Dock or by using Activity Monitor.Īs a general rule, document-centric and/or applications that can have multiple windows open at any given time remain open when the window's close button is clicked. TextEdit however will continue to run when the close button is clicked. System Preferences quits when you when you click the close button. An ideal example to demonstrate this behavior would be a comparison of System Preferences and TextEdit. Some applications will quit when you close the window, some won't. In OS X however, clicking the left red button does not necessarily quit an application, in many cases it just closes the window for that application. Windows users are used to clicking the red 'X' in the upper right button in Microsoft Windows to quit an application. You will begin to realize that out of the three, you will most often use the close button.Ĭlose ButtonTo close a window, position your mouse pointer over the red button located at the upper-left corner of the window and click the mouse button.

Hover over red and you'll see an 'x', hover over yellow to see a '-', hover over green to see a '+'. Just put the mouse over the buttons and you'll see symbols appear within the buttons.