Re: Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[Paul Hopewell]

Hi Mike, 
The items in the status menu behave just as I want them to. However can I add 
my own arbitrary apps to the status menu? 

Paul Hopewell 
On 28 Nov 2011, at 00:10, Mike Arrigo wrote:

> The closest thing is the status menus, this is what shows your volume, 
> battery, etc. You get to it by pressing control F8 or in voiceover, press 
> control option m twice.
> On Nov 27, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> 
>> Hello, 
>> Is there a Mac OS 10.7 facility similar to the Windows System Tray? On 
>> Windows you can move applications to the System Tray (aka Notification 
>> Area). If such a facility were available on Mac OS it would mean that the 
>> selected applications would not appear if you cycle round your windows using 
>> Command+Tab. Instead you would have to access that application from 
>> somewhere else like the dock. 
>> 
>> A good use of this would be to put growl in the Mac System Tray so that 
>> growl does not appear when you command+Tab around your windows. It would 
>> also be useful to hide WQuickeys in this way. 
>> Is there such a facility? 
>> Many thanks. 
>> 
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Re: Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[Sarah Alawami]

But since voice over does not have the feature wherein you can get to all the 
status icons including programs you put  there via installing apps it is of 
litle use then to check the time and date lol! They broke it in os lion and I 
guess will not bother to fix it enev though I submitted to the accessibility 
team.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:

> The closest thing is the status menus, this is what shows your volume, 
> battery, etc. You get to it by pressing control F8 or in voiceover, press 
> control option m twice.
> On Nov 27, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> 
>> Hello, 
>> Is there a Mac OS 10.7 facility similar to the Windows System Tray? On 
>> Windows you can move applications to the System Tray (aka Notification 
>> Area). If such a facility were available on Mac OS it would mean that the 
>> selected applications would not appear if you cycle round your windows using 
>> Command+Tab. Instead you would have to access that application from 
>> somewhere else like the dock. 
>> 
>> A good use of this would be to put growl in the Mac System Tray so that 
>> growl does not appear when you command+Tab around your windows. It would 
>> also be useful to hide WQuickeys in this way. 
>> Is there such a facility? 
>> Many thanks. 
>> 
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Re: Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[Mike Arrigo]

The closest thing is the status menus, this is what shows your volume, battery, 
etc. You get to it by pressing control F8 or in voiceover, press control option 
m twice.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:

> Hello, 
> Is there a Mac OS 10.7 facility similar to the Windows System Tray? On 
> Windows you can move applications to the System Tray (aka Notification Area). 
> If such a facility were available on Mac OS it would mean that the selected 
> applications would not appear if you cycle round your windows using 
> Command+Tab. Instead you would have to access that application from somewhere 
> else like the dock. 
> 
> A good use of this would be to put growl in the Mac System Tray so that growl 
> does not appear when you command+Tab around your windows. It would also be 
> useful to hide WQuickeys in this way. 
> Is there such a facility? 
> Many thanks. 
> 
> Paul Hopewell 
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Re: Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[Sarah Alawami]

Huh? I don't cmd tab rhough the doc I just use my arrows. i don't think there 
is a way but I could be wrong. You could remove them from the doc I think if 
you have it there and the app is not running.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:

> Hi Sarah, 
> I use the dock as a good place to access frequently used applications. 
> However I have not discovered a way to avoid ann active application in the 
> dock being announced when I cycle round my active applications using 
> Command+Tab. It would be good if I could mark selected applications in the 
> dock such as growl and quickeys as "hidden from Command+Tab". Is that 
> possible? 
> Many thanks. 
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Re: Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[James AUSTIN]

Hi Paul,

As far as i am aware, there is no in-built method of doing this. If the 
"Spaces" feature of OS X worked as it should, then you would be able to do what 
you wanted. 

There might be athird-party app though. have you tried Google?

TC :)
J

On 27 Nov 2011, at 19:04, Paul Hopewell wrote:

> Hi Sarah, 
> I use the dock as a good place to access frequently used applications. 
> However I have not discovered a way to avoid ann active application in the 
> dock being announced when I cycle round my active applications using 
> Command+Tab. It would be good if I could mark selected applications in the 
> dock such as growl and quickeys as "hidden from Command+Tab". Is that 
> possible? 
> Many thanks. 
> 
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Re: Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[David Griffith]

I would suggest that as well as the Dock you investigate the status items.  I 
am not sure what the OS command for bringing these up are but the Voiceover way 
is to press VO M twice.
When I do this I bring up the following items.
These are universal access, the status of my time Machine backups, my bluetooth 
signals, my Wifi connections and the system date and time. These are all items 
which would traditionally have been located in the notification area on a 
Windows system.

Regards 
David Griffith
d.griff...@btinternet.com



On 27 Nov 2011, at 18:06, Sarah Alawami wrote:

> sort of. think of the doc as the system tray. Tehre  you can access programs 
> you use often or sometime sin my case not at all. lol! I mgiht be wrong about 
> that answer but tha'ts what I use the doc for lol! sort of like the system 
> tray. Hehaa.
> 
> Take care.
> On Nov 27, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> 
>> Hello, 
>> Is there a Mac OS 10.7 facility similar to the Windows System Tray? On 
>> Windows you can move applications to the System Tray (aka Notification 
>> Area). If such a facility were available on Mac OS it would mean that the 
>> selected applications would not appear if you cycle round your windows using 
>> Command+Tab. Instead you would have to access that application from 
>> somewhere else like the dock. 
>> 
>> A good use of this would be to put growl in the Mac System Tray so that 
>> growl does not appear when you command+Tab around your windows. It would 
>> also be useful to hide WQuickeys in this way. 
>> Is there such a facility? 
>> Many thanks. 
>> 
>> Paul Hopewell 
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Re: Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[Paul Hopewell]

Hi Sarah, 
I use the dock as a good place to access frequently used applications. However 
I have not discovered a way to avoid ann active application in the dock being 
announced when I cycle round my active applications using Command+Tab. It would 
be good if I could mark selected applications in the dock such as growl and 
quickeys as "hidden from Command+Tab". Is that possible? 
Many thanks. 

Paul Hopewell 
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Re: Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[Sarah Alawami]

sort of. think of the doc as the system tray. Tehre  you can access programs 
you use often or sometime sin my case not at all. lol! I mgiht be wrong about 
that answer but tha'ts what I use the doc for lol! sort of like the system 
tray. Hehaa.

Take care.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:

> Hello, 
> Is there a Mac OS 10.7 facility similar to the Windows System Tray? On 
> Windows you can move applications to the System Tray (aka Notification Area). 
> If such a facility were available on Mac OS it would mean that the selected 
> applications would not appear if you cycle round your windows using 
> Command+Tab. Instead you would have to access that application from somewhere 
> else like the dock. 
> 
> A good use of this would be to put growl in the Mac System Tray so that growl 
> does not appear when you command+Tab around your windows. It would also be 
> useful to hide WQuickeys in this way. 
> Is there such a facility? 
> Many thanks. 
> 
> Paul Hopewell 
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Maqc equivalent of the WIndows System Tray?

[Paul Hopewell]

Hello, 
Is there a Mac OS 10.7 facility similar to the Windows System Tray? On Windows 
you can move applications to the System Tray (aka Notification Area). If such a 
facility were available on Mac OS it would mean that the selected applications 
would not appear if you cycle round your windows using Command+Tab. Instead you 
would have to access that application from somewhere else like the dock. 

A good use of this would be to put growl in the Mac System Tray so that growl 
does not appear when you command+Tab around your windows. It would also be 
useful to hide WQuickeys in this way. 
Is there such a facility? 
Many thanks. 

Paul Hopewell 
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