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OSX: Make the Help Window suck less on Leopard

The Help Window on OSX Leopard is annoying -- it floats always on top, has no dock icon and you can't switch to it using CMD-Tab. WTH Apple????

The following Terminal command will revert the Help Viewer window to its "not always floating" 10.4 behavior::

defaults write com.apple.helpviewer NormalWindow -bool true

Additionally, execute the following (bash) commands as an administrator in Terminal to have access to the application via Command-Tab or its Dock icon::

i=/System/Library/CoreServices/Help\ Viewer.app/Contents/Info.plist
sudo defaults write "${i%.plist}" LSUIElement 0
sudo chmod 644 "$i"

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