Is there a way to stop the launching applications to come to foreground?

Is there a way to stop the launching applications to come to foreground?
Back with os 10.3 Panther or 10.4 Tiger the apps opened in the background. That was one of the good differences with Windows. I guess that 10.5 Leopard adopted this annoying Windows behavior. Hope it's gonna change with 10.7 Lion.
(Of course I am looking for another solution than the AppleScript/Terminal launch that can be found on Google. I'd rather have a plist option to change if it exists!)

I have found this page http://www.realsoftware.com/listarchives/realbasic-nug/2009-03/msg01167.html where it is proposed to add :
<key>LSBackgroundOnly</key>
<string>True</string>
to MyApp.app/Contents/Info.plist
I tried this but the app launches totally hidden in the background. Plus you have to set this behavior for every app.
The open -g option works fine as expected.
Still looking for a system-wide option, but it doesn't seem to exist.
About the utility of such an option, I'll just remember you that some machine don't load apps very fast and, instead of waiting for an app to launch, the user will do something else until the app launches. You'll understand that waiting in front of a computer isn't acceptable and having a MBPro isn't possible for everyone.

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Joseph Mirwald wrote:
Hello forte-users,
i am wondering if there is a solution to hide the launcher in the
task-line of Win95 without additional tools.
I need a way to start the launcher as system-service or in a manner
that the process is not shown in the Win95 task-line after startup
the computer. Because if more MS-DOS-tasks are open some users clean
the task line using close with the right mouse-button to close those
tasks without looking which kind of process it is. And sometimes they
close the launcher also during run of a forte-application which makes
it impossible to continue some work in this application :-).
Every little help is welcome
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I'm guessing what really needs to be closed is the launch server window,
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As far as we have been able to discover here, the only way to make the
launch server close after the application exits is to code it into your
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[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Dustin Breese [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 10:36 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Is there a way to hide the launcher in Win95?
Joseph,
Try setting FORTE_LAUNCHER_CLOSE=TRUE. This is supposed to
shut down the
launcher after an application is launched. The default is FALSE.
You can hide the console window when launched via FTExec by:
aW : Window = new();
aW.windowsystem.ConsoleWindowDisplayState = DS_HIDDEN;
Hope this helps!
Dustin Breese
PerSe Technologies
From: Joseph Mirwald <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:26:32 +0200
Subject: Is there a way to hide the launcher in Win95?
Hello forte-users,
i am wondering if there is a solution to hide the launcher in the=20
task-line of Win95 without additional tools.
I need a way to start the launcher as system-service or in a manner
that the process is not shown in the Win95 task-line after startup
the computer. Because if more MS-DOS-tasks are open some users clean
the task line using close with the right mouse-button to close those
tasks without looking which kind of process it is. And sometimes they
close the launcher also during run of a forte-application which makes
it impossible to continue some work in this application :-).
Every little help is welcome
Joseph Mirwald
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I need a way to start the launcher as system-service or in a manner
that the process is not shown in the Win95 task-line after startup
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