Geek Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/remove-finder-from-mac-os-x-app-switcher.jpg" alt="Remove Finder from App Switcher in Mac OS X" title="remove-finder-from-mac-os-x-app-switcher" width="484" height="260" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27165" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/17/secrets-of-the-command-tab-mac-application-switcher/">Command+Tab application switcher</a> gets a lot use by many Mac OS X power users, and by default it will include the Finder in the apps to be able to switch to and from. If you’d rather limit the App Switcher to only swap between open applications and not include the Finder though, you’ll have to dig out the command line.</p> <ul> <li>Launch the Terminal and type the following:</li> <p><code>sudo nano /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Info.plist</code></p> <p>You’ll need to authenticate because you are using sudo to edit a system file </p> <li>Add the following strings near the top of the plist file but under “<dict>”:</li> <p><code> <key>NSUIElement</key> <string>1</string> </code></p> <p>That should look like this: <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/remove-finder-from-app-switcher-mac.jpg" alt="Remove the Finder from Mac OS X App Switcher" title="remove-finder-from-app-switcher-mac" width="575" height="206" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27164" /></p> <li>Now hit Control+O to save the changes, then hit Control+X to exit out of nano</li> <li>Finally you must kill the Finder to relaunch it with the following command:</li> <p><code>killall Finder</code></p> <li>Exit out of Terminal and hit Command+Tab again to verify the change</li> </ul> <p>You can undo this at any time by editing the Info.plist file again and removing the two lines you added.</p> <p>This tip and topmost image come from <a href="http://blog.joshdzielak.com/blog/2012/02/12/remove-finder-from-the-app-switcher-in-mac-osx/">joshdzielak.com</a>, we modified the process slightly and chose to use the simpler nano editor rather than vi.</p> <p><em>Thanks for sending this in Dan</em></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/u7XE0Y8o_mnaR8qkPZm3SEQ0OpA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/u7XE0Y8o_mnaR8qkPZm3SEQ0OpA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/u7XE0Y8o_mnaR8qkPZm3SEQ0OpA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/u7XE0Y8o_mnaR8qkPZm3SEQ0OpA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_FvvHaHMbN8:9V4zIlItOss:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_FvvHaHMbN8:9V4zIlItOss:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=_FvvHaHMbN8:9V4zIlItOss:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_FvvHaHMbN8:9V4zIlItOss:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=_FvvHaHMbN8:9V4zIlItOss:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_FvvHaHMbN8:9V4zIlItOss:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_FvvHaHMbN8:9V4zIlItOss:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/_FvvHaHMbN8" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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