achinoam01: 10.6: Set Help Viewer window to non-floating mode.

Monday, March 14, 2011

10.6: Set Help Viewer window to non-floating mode.

This is an update to an old 2008 hint for Leopard. Basically the hint explained how to have an icon in the Dock for Help Viewer and how to set its windows to non-floating mode. Of course it didn't work anymore in Snow Leopard, since some of the terminology changed.

To activate Help Viewer DevMode type this in a terminal window:

defaults write com.apple.helpviewer DevMode -bool true

and to deactivate it type this:

defaults delete com.apple.helpviewer DevMode

In DevMode Help Viewer has an icon in the Dock and its windows are non-floating windows. Note that the original hint modified a key in the app's Info.plist for the icon in the Dock part of the hint which would break Help Viewer's code signing on Snow Leopard. ...