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20.05.2008 20:58:37

Remote Buddy always running in dock & menu

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Greetings to all.

I'm trying to get RB to run just in my menu bar. Despite setting this option in the RB preferences, it still opens in my dock. Cycling through the different settings yields that I can have it in the Dock (and not the menubar), Dock & Menu, but not just the Menu- it still opens up in the dock.

I noticed this behavior only recently when I reformatted my Mac Pro. I'm running the latest versions of RB and OS X 10.5.

Cheers,
-KT

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Configuration

Remote Buddy no longer appears as symbol in the menubar. (FAQ015E0169)
There are several possible reasons for this:
- You have configured Remote Buddy to only appear in the dock.
- Too many tools on your system occupy title bar space with their symbols not leaving any space for the system to also display Remote Buddy's symbol. Quit these tools to regain access to the Remote Buddy icon. Due to a bug in OS X, you may have to select different application's windows before the titlebar layout is refreshed (i.e. click on Mail, then on the Finder to trigger a relayout).

General

The setting, whether Remote Buddy should show up in the menu bar or dock shows no effect. (FAQ015E0231)
If you switched from Tiger (OS 10.4) to Leopard (OS 10.5) and you have not updated your copy via the Online Updater since, it is possible that you are still running a copy of Remote Buddy with modified Info.plist file, which can lead to the described problem.
Solution:
1. Quit Remote Buddy.
2. Download a fresh copy of Remote Buddy ( http://www.iospirit.com/remotebuddy/download/ )
3. Replace your existing copy of Remote Buddy with the fresh copy of Remote Buddy.
4. Start the new copy of Remote Buddy.

Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

As long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.

Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.

Although our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.

User

22.05.2008 19:13:06

Re: Remote Buddy always running in dock & menu

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This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information.

On OS X 10.4, Remote Buddy needs to modify its own Info.plist to
achieve that option. In OS X 10.5, there are other ways and while
modification of the Info.plist still works, it breaks the code
signature of the application (=> RB is code signed to deliver the best
experience with Leopard's keychain and firewall - both of which behave
differently, when an app is signed).

Therefore, if you changed that option in the past, you shouldn't reuse
a copy of Remote Buddy.app from 10.4 (as, when you changed that
option, the Info.plist will be modifed and code signing be broken),
but rather install it afresh for 10.5.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

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