bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) (07/19/88)
>From article <1200@sun3.che.clarkson.edu>, by kweeder@sun3.che.clarkson.edu (Jim Kweeder): >> When I open the control panel on the Mac, a line of icons (pertaining to >> mouse, monitor, keyboard, etc.) appear in a scrolling window on the >> left side of the control panel. >> >> My question: can I change the order in which they appear? > >Sure. The first one is general. After that, they are listed >alphabetically. Just change the name by putting a dash in front of >the ones that you want listed at the top. You will need to use >something like mactools to rename the ones that apple releases. One note: sometimes these things do not co-exist too well (I think Moire CDEV has to execute its INIT before Font/DA Juggler), especially if they have related INITs. If you find that changing the names causes crashes at boot time, or even later, consider that changing execution sequence may have caused the failure. >-- > William C. DenBesten > denbeste@bgsu.edu Scott Bayes
brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu (07/19/88)
The cdev's (as they are called) appear in alphabetical order. Except
for the "first" cdev, that is usually General. If you click on a cdev with
option held down, you make that cdev the top cdev. There are other things that
do this, like the ChooseCdev cdev, but this is easier. Apparently (I haven't
tried this myself) if you add /_ where "_" is a letter, that letter becomes the
key equivilent for that cdev. You can then bring it up with that key. Note that
the option thing appears to work (I have gotten it to work). However, they cmd
key thing may be a feature of hierDA, a wonderful little cdev/INIT. It is
described in its documentation, and I am too lazy to take hierDA out and see if
it works.
So, in summary, you just have to add some letter (or better yet, a
number) to the name of some or all of your cdevs. Then they will come up in the
order you want.
Robert Brewer
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