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[I work at Docker on the announced Mac app]

Nathan LaFreniere (the author of dlite) is awesome, and we've been exchanging tips and tricks and areas where we can collaborate. He knew exactly where to press to find bugs in our earlier betas...

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I am very excited about the new Mac app and I want to try it.

At the moment I use dlite. The thing I love about it is that it's transparent. I hope that the new Mac app has an option or mode to be like that too (start on system boot, doesn't create a new desktop window/gui, SSH from terminal would be enough for me).

Something analogous to MacVim's -v flag; by default "mvim" opens a new app with its own window, but "mvim -v" starts Vim inside current terminal. Not a great analogy, sorry about that.

Thanks.

Yes it starts on boot and doesn't need a special terminal. There is just a small whale in the toolbar so you can exit or change settings.

That's perfect, thanks!

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