Hi Mariano, Thanks, I used this method, but my problem is I do need an icon in the dock :)
I'm using Pharo as a server, and I'd need the user to be able to stop it without any command-line knowledge. Esteban, I'll try with Alien. I'm curious though, doesn't NativeBoost replace Alien now? Thanks! Bernat. 2014-05-27 14:35 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com>: > Hi Bernat, > > About a year ago I did implement that on the Pharo VM (the Pharo's branch > of Cog). It was integrated as far as I remember. > I copied pasted here the ANN I sent to the mailing list: > > > Hello there, > > For a long time, Pharaoers and Squakers have been asking for headless support > in the Cocoa VMs just as we have with Carbon VMs. Carbon is becoming a > legacy framework so people needed this. > > I wanted to thanks Square [i] International <http://www.square-i.net/> for > sponsoring me to implement such a support. Not only have they sponsored the > development but they have also agreed to release it under MIT license for > the community. This headless support will be included in the official > Pharo VM and will be, therefore, accessible to everybody. > > The project is not yet finished but I do have a demo/prototype that I > wanted to share with you so that you can test it and give me feedback. This > VM should only work starting at OSX 10.6. > > *How to use it?* Basically it works this way: to have headless, just > edit the Info.plist and set the flag LSBackgroundOnly to 1 (add the key if > it is not present): > > <key>LSBackgroundOnly</key> > <true/> > > When doing this, you don't even need the -headless anymore since, setting > LSBackgroundOnly to 1, will cause the same effect (being the flag almost > mandatory). If you don't want headless, put it to false or don't even put > the key. If you don't set LSBackgroundOnly to 1 but send -headless, the > VM will still be headless but you will see a little flash. If this flash > bothers you, then set the flag. I am trying to get a way to avoid the > "flash" while also avoiding to set LSBackgroundOnly to 1, but I still > couldn't find it. Anyway, I think we can live with the current situation. > > *How to test it?* You should run the image with something like RFB or > Seaside or whatever you can and then confirm if it is working even if you > areheadless. As a matter of testing, I saved an image with seaside > running in the port 5555. You can get both, this Seaside image and the VM > withheadless from: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r7qk49bxywk2xce/6N7-fdyx6V > So if you run the VM headless with that image and go to localhost:5555, > you should see that Seaside is running. > > I would appreciate if you can test it. And please let me know in which > version of OSX you tried. Of course, the more of you who can test it, the > better. Notice that this VM was compiled with LLVM GCC 4.2 and it may have > some problems in older OSX versions (but I think it shouldn't). I still > couldn't compile a VM with GNU GCC 4.2 as I get a crash :( > > *Expected results?* In headless mode, anything should be displayed (no > window, no menu, no item in the dock and nothing appear when switching > apps). When running headfull, everything should be normal. > > *Where is the code? *The code I have modified to the VM is committed to > my own fork of the VM: > https://gitorious.org/~marianopeck/cogvm/marianopecks-blessed > Once the code is ready, I will do a pull request so that it can be > integrated. > > > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Bernat Romagosa < > tibabenfortlapala...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> is it possible to have Pharo run headless while still showing up in the >> dock? >> >> In the same direction, is it possible to add contextual menu items to the >> dock menu? Or for what matters, to the top system menu? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Bernat Romagosa. >> > > > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > -- Bernat Romagosa.
