Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Background Apps Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 01:50:34 GMT References: <1991Feb27.004643.14212@engin.umich.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: sfalken@caen.engin.umich.edu's message of 27 Feb 91 00:46:43 GMT In article <1991Feb27.004643.14212@engin.umich.edu> sfalken@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Falkenburg) writes: 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 Is there a point to this line? "Background Folder" ? If you create a folder named "Background Folder" inside the System Folder under System 6, Finder will run the _first_ app out of this folder. In other words, you can take the Backgrounder application, put it inside the Background Folder, and it will run. As I mentioned above, only the _first_ application from this folder is run. I solved this problem by writing an app (background only, of course) to launch all other apps inside this folder. This seems to be a good way to get quite a few things going automatically, without messing with "Set Startup..." in the Finder. So what's wrong with "Set Startup..."? -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/