Re: Yet another Finder bug (?)

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <30ok8s$cht@news.ysu.edu>, Eric S. Ford <ag471@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
> [stuff deleted]  However, if I later
>try to change it back (i.e. hold down the Control key and click on the
>window's close box) it doesn't work and the window continues to open
>when I enter or return to the Finder.  I end up having to select 'Save
>FInder changes' then close the window then de-select 'Save Finder
>changes'.  What am I missing?

   The Finder updates its list of windows opened automatically on
launching a program, not just by control-closing windows.
Control-closing a window will update the arrangement of the
window (useful with 601's view by small icon and option-'clean up by
name'), not whether the window will be opened next time.

   If you want to provide a fairly easy way of restoring things, then
either don't control-open things from windows, or leave a few icons on
the desktop (I have AWGS, GSHK, GNO's Kern, and DreamGrafix), then
muck around with windows as you like it, and contol-open an app from
the desktop.

Nathan Mates


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