[X4U] start app in background

[Jim Freeman]

Yes. What prompted me to ask was that I wanted to send a photo to  
someone using iPhoto. I launched iPhoto using LaunchBar and then  
clicked back on Mail in the dock to go back to the message i was  
writing. I don't know if behavior has changed or it depends on the  
app, but sometimes the launching app will keep jumping to the front  
and I'll keep having to click on the dock to get back to what I'm  
doing. In this case I launched iPhoto and was able to work in Mail  
until iPhoto was ready. I guess I should read LaunchBar documentation  
and see what they say. And there is Command-H, although I don't know  
if it would always work with a launching ap. Not a huge deal, just an  
annoyance and I thought that maybe there was a solution out there.

Jim

On 2-Nov-05, at 9:21 AM, net kat wrote:

> Hey, Jim..
>
> Are you talking about not wanting to wait for apps that have a long  
> launch time? I've always had pretty good luck launching apps, then  
> going on to whatever I was already working on.
>
> Photoshop is an example of an app that takes awhile to launch,  
> compared to others I use...FCP as well...
>
> netkat
>
>
>
> On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to start an app in the background, either from the  
>> dock or from LaunchBar? Sometimes I want to start an app, but keep  
>> working on something else until it is fully launched?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim

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