<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jim</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 2-Nov-05, at 9:21 AM, net kat wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hey, Jim..</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">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.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Photoshop is an example of an app that takes awhile to launch, compared to others I use...FCP as well...</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">netkat</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">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?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jim</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>