little blue light under the Finder app on the dock

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here is a censored version of my "Quit Finder"

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sorry, i dont understand? do you mean the icons finder uses for Hard drives and discs etc? once i quit Finder everything on the desktop dissapears. just background remains.
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That is what I was after.

When you quit Explorer in Vista there is just the background and not one other thing. Tried it this morning for the fun of it.
 

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Forgive me for going off topic from the OP, but vansmith's post has intrigued me.

So, i quit Finder. As in, i use the terminal command to add "Quit finder" to the global menu:

Then obviously the app itself quits. (the laptop icon is finder, i changed it. note: no LED underneath)
Odd. If I kill Finder from the command line, it automatically reopens. I hadn't realized that there was an option to quit Finder altogether. It would appear that Quartz Compositor (aka. WindowServer) that is the windowing system. So my last statement is technically incorrect but would you want to use OS X with no open instance of Finder? I'm actually surprised that you still have a wallpaper - something other than Finder (WindowServer?) must be responsible for it.

sorry, i dont understand? do you mean the icons finder uses for Hard drives and discs etc? once i quit Finder everything on the desktop dissapears. just background remains.
That's expected - the Desktop is a "Finder window" so to speak.
 

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Interesting. I had thought that Finder was a special process that always had to be running.
 

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I always think that messing around with "Terminal" for 99.9% of users is a bad idea!;)

- Nick
 

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I always think that messing around with "Terminal" for 99.9% of users is a bad idea!;)

- Nick
Couldn't agree more. You have to know it to use it. That's why virtual machines are a great testbed.
 

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I always think that messing around with "Terminal" for 99.9% of users is a bad idea!;)

- Nick

i just like using to pretend I am clever. usually i just do what would take me five seconds in finder (cd'ing through directories.) takes me about ten years, but its fun sometimes :p

also, a little bit of SSHing into my Mac upstairs to turn the music off. thats about it. Laziness prevails. ;)
 

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I am glad the OP asked this question as it got some of us busy in the Terminal and learning ways to get around it the Finder or Explorer go down! In Vista you just keep the Task Manager open and hit File and run and put in Explorer.exe and it comes back up! :D


The Terminal should be left to people who really know it as it really can get a person into trouble if they do not know what they are doing.
 

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I am glad the OP asked this question as it got some of us busy in the Terminal and learning ways to get around it the Finder or Explorer go down!

must agree, its been a very interesting conversation. I must say, i am a Windows noob, so i have no idea what you mean about Vista/Explorer. ;)

oh, and im in no way proficient in Terminal. i can do a couple of things and i know a couple of commands. nothing much really.
 

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I include myself in that 99.9%!;)

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I would know a lot more about Terminal if I would have kept at working with Linux the way I was and maybe should get back into it. I am in the middle somewhere between Van and the non terminal people. I can do a lot in it but am not 100% proficient.
 
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I am glad the OP asked this question as it got some of us busy in the Terminal and learning ways to get around it the Finder or Explorer go down! In Vista you just keep the Task Manager open and hit File and run and put in Explorer.exe and it comes back up! :D


The Terminal should be left to people who really know it as it really can get a person into trouble if they do not know what they are doing.


No better way to learn it than to seriously bonk it up and have to figure out how to fix it ;)

I know... that's completely evil isn't it?
 

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No better way to learn it than to seriously bonk it up and have to figure out how to fix it ;)

I know... that's completely evil isn't it?

Actually I agree. I have learned a lot that way and you never forget it either! :D

Mess it up then fix it and then you really have learned something! :D
 

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The best way to learn things is to learn it without worry of the consequences. Unfortunately, if you have no quick way of fixing it, it's probably not the best way. Hence the VM suggestion (you can easily get a free Unix variant that is close enough).
 
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The best way to learn things is to learn it without worry of the consequences. Unfortunately, if you have no quick way of fixing it, it's probably not the best way. Hence the VM suggestion (you can easily get a free Unix variant that is close enough).
This is true, after all.. I work in sandboxes for a reason :D
 

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