Questions about the usages of the various initialization files used by Mathematica. The most common ones are the init.m files that can be found in some Mathematica system folders and in a few specific user folders.
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Automatically load packages at startup
I'm a physics student and I try to simplify my day with Mathematica. Every time I use Mathematica I need Div[], Grad[], ...
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Launch a specific notebook automatically when Mathematica starts
I run Mathematica on an iMac running OS X 10.6.8.
I have set the OS's "Launch Items" to include Mathematica so that the application opens when the computer boots.
Now I want to go further and ...
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How do I automatically evaluate a cell when a notebook is opened?
I'm trying to put together a GUI in Mathematica and need to evaluate one cell to kick that off. Is there a way to automatically evaluate that cell when the notebook is opened? Here is an example of ...
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What is modifying an init.m that changes menu Palettes order?
When I installed the mathStatica application, it seems to have made some kind of change deep in my Mathematica 8.0.4 system files. That change causes the mathStatica palette to appear out of ...
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Running an initialization cell on Mathematica start up
I am writing a bash script to run a bunch of Mathematica .nb files serially. So I thought I'd convert my Mathematica cells into ...
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How to make DynamicModule work without an extra ENTER
I've been trying to learn more about DynamicModule (I do not use them, as I used Manipulate all the time).
After some time ...
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How often does Mathematica contact its license server?
I know that Mathematica checks the validity of its license every time the program is launched.
Say, however, that I have a valid license (which I do) and that I am running some code which takes a ...
