The Application Menu
The ability to hide
an application is particularly
useful for applications that you don’t frequently
need to interact with, such as the OSXvnc server. The Hide option,
found in the application menu of most Mac OS X applications (for
example, OSXvnc → Hide
OSXvnc), can usually be invoked with the
-H keyboard shortcut to hide the currently running application.
To un-hide the application, simply click on the application’s Dock icon or use the application switcher (
-Tab) to locate the application. The Hide Others menu selection (sometimes available with the keyboard shortcut Option-
-H) hides all other open applications.
Finally, the Show All menu option, which is located in the application menu, brings all running applications out of hiding.
Get Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
