Comments on: Invoke Quicksilver In All Spaces After 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Upgrade

By: dj moonbat

dj moonbat — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:25:34 +0000

Here’s the kludgy fix:

1. Switch on “Show Icon in Dock”
2. Relaunch QS
3. Go to the Spaces preference pane
4. If you already have an entry for QS, delete the entry
5. Create a Spaces entry for QS
6. Make that entry “All Spaces”
7. Quit QS
8. Launch QS
9. Turn off “Show Icon in Dock”
X. Restart QS

From this point on, until some other Quicksilver wackiness happens, you should be able to view QS in any space without having the dock icon visible.

By: David

David — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:43:59 +0000

Ugh. It ate the formatting. If you're familiar with the plist format, you should still be able to figure it out. @David

By: David

David — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:43:03 +0000

If you’ve got this behaving, and want to get rid of the dock icon, you can do so with a quick plist edit:

/Applications/Quicksilver.app/Contents/Info.plist

Starts looking like:

CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
English

add the elements:
NSUIElement
1

so that it now looks like:

NSUIElement
1
CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
English

Here’s hoping my formatting gets preserved.

By: gyffes

gyffes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:48:16 +0000

Using Window interface, Spaces=Every, B57 and 10.6.4, it still won’t work w/o “Show in Dock” enabled. Tried the Show > Don’t Show as suggested above, and that didn’ work.

Show in dock is not a deal-breaker, but it’s not wonderful. It’d be nice if this were fixed. However, given how cruddy Word and Spaces can be together, I’m not sure this isn’t a fault of Apple’s implementation of Spaces.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:39:54 +0000

The Showcase interface does the same thing. Adding in every space in the preferences didn’t work for that but having QS show up in the dock does. Thanks for the tip!

By: Bates

Bates — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:08:32 +0000

I have been trying all tricks all over the internet since september 2009, and none was working as I wanted to. Crash there, crash here, slow there, hang there, etc. But today I am back with QuickSilver in my Snow Leopard. This guy is amazing, he did a trick to make the QS work very fast and stable in my Snow Leopard. Check that out: http://bit.ly/2l6Ae

By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:42:14 +0000

The problem occurs in the Primer command interface. I found that out when I asked my teacher if he had the problem, and he said no. He was using the bezel interface, and when I tried that, everything worked perfectly.

You can change the command interface in Preferences –> Appearance –> Command Interface.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:56:15 +0000

@Erico Vinicius I tried that as well, Erico - but it didn't work. Granted, that was in 10.6 and maybe that works in 10.6.1 now.

By: Erico Vinicius

Erico Vinicius — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:14:45 +0000

Same problem here. But instead of adding the icon to the dock you can go on the spaces preferences and assign quicksilver to every space.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:01:50 +0000

Nice catch! It’s working for me too.