On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote: > However, your recommendation to launch apps by control-clicking and > selecting Open seems unusual. Doesn't double clicking on the icon also Open > (launch) the app? So why control-click ... ?
Because that was not working for me. I could not reliably select the icons with a single click and I believe that selecting the item with single click is a pre-requisite for double-click. > Another question I have is regarding your suggestion to place the j64-804 > folder into the Applications folder instead of the <username> folder. I > know that most apps are placed there, but this is not an app but a folder > for an app. Somewhere I read that placing the J folder elsewhere from the > <username> folder means that the user may be required to supply a password. > I cannot verify that because I have always installed in my brian folder. Yes, the user may be required to supply their login password. > Your instruction to open Terminal seems complex when all that is needed is > to double-click on the grey jcon to launch jconsole in Terminal. Perhaps > the problem with my idea is that it only works if the j64-804 folder is > placed in the <username> folder? Most non developers are unaware of > Terminal, in my experience, so I would avoid even its mention. I'm comfortable with terminal, and believe that mac users should be familiar with its presence, if not all of its potential, and that influenced my writeup. That said, yes, you could unlock the grey J icon and use that instead. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
