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I would like to use WindChooser for the "Shrinker" WDEF, which seems
quite handy with Multifinder.  There's only one problem -- an
incompatibility with DiskLock.  For the uninitiated, Disklock unmounts
the hard disks after a certain amount of idle time, requiring a
password to remount them.  The problem is that, after Disklock
unmounts the disks, some event must take place that requires the WDEF
to do something (most likely having something to do with blanking the
screen -- my guess).  

My speculation is that WindChooser installs a patch which reroutes
calls to WDEF #0 to the WDEF selected within it.  Here lies the
problem.  After the disks are unmounted, calls to the WDEF apparently
require accessing the WindChooser file.  Since the hard disk is
unmounted, this means we get a "Please insert disk FOO" dialog box,
defeating the purpose of the screen blanking.  I tried to unset the
purgeable and set the locked bits in the WDEF, but this didn't solve
the problem.

So, my question is this: is there any good way to install the
"Shrinker" WDEF into the system, so it will work just like the default
one does, without interfering with DiskLock?  I already tried just
replacing the WDEF #0 in the system, but this didn't change the window
appearances.  Therefore, I have reasoned that the critical WDEFs
aren't in the System.  So, what's the technique?  I thought that's
where all of that stuff was kept?

Thanks in advance to all you Mac gurus out there.
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			    Michael Stiber
   stiber@cs.ucla.edu                  UCLA Computer Science Dept.
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