• Mac OS X

    Keep Help Windows From Hogging the Foreground in OS X

    By default, the OS X help window automatically overlays other screens. I’ve now added to my lab imaging sequence to disable this as I use help windows from time to time but want other windows in the foreground when I command-tab to them. To make the change, write a DevMode key as boolean true into com.apple.helpviewer using the defaults command as follows: defaults write com.apple.helpviewer DevMode -bool true To disable: defaults write com.apple.helpviewer DevMode -bool false