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From: dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Software to Hide Windows
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.071723.18972@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 07:17:23 GMT
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In article <4988@husc6.harvard.edu> aoki@husc9.UUCP (Edwin Aoki) writes:
>
>As for System 7.0, the menu that allows you to move applications has separate
>items for set aside self and set aside others.  I use the set aside self 
>option quite a bit, so I'm not sure that having Set aside all others as a
>default is necessary, but one hint for those using 6.1b9. 

Certainly not necessary as a default: that makes cutting and pasting
between applications too cumbersome.  Having the option, however, is
definitely useful.  If you're doing a lot of cutting and pasting
between a set of applications and then decide you want to work only in
one for a while, you don't have to go through the list of all open
applications to hide the unwanted open windows; a single option-click
from the current application does it for you.

>If you have windows
>from more than one app on your desktop, command-option clicking in a window
>from another application (in another "layer" in technical terms) will "set
>aside" the current app (the one in the foreground) before switching to the
>app you just switched to - a handy shortcut.

Actually, you don't need the command key.  Option-click in the window of
another application will do it.  Just picking nits :-).

>-Edwin Aoki


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