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When at home I use my 13" MacBook Pro hooked up to an 27" external monitor. When working on my 27" screen I prefer to have a visible dock at all times. I have enough screen real estate to afford this luxury.

When I'm on the road working on my 13" screen I prefer to automatically hide the dock as it really gets in the way when screen real estate is limited.

I now manually switch between enabling and disabling hiding (using ⌥⌘D) but I would prefer this to happen automatically. Can I enable hiding the dock on my MacBook monitor and disable hiding the dock on my external monitor?

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Applications like Sidekick or ControlPlane allow you to change settings (network, desktop picture, custom terminal actions) based on location evidences (geolocation, attached devices...etc). I'm sure you will be able to use one of those to detect you are at your desk with your 27" plugged in and run a command disabling auto-hide.

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Thanks for the suggestions! Sidekick doesn't really apply because it's purely based on geolocation and I often use my Macbook in the vicinity of my monitor without it being plugged in. ControlPlane does look potentially interesting though. I'll try it out and accept your answer if it works. – Dennis Laumen Apr 30 at 8:17

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