The special transparent bar (usually at the bottom) of a Macintosh's desktop which houses applications, stacks, and the trashcan.
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App behavior with spaces and minimized window
I would like to change the behavior when I click on an app that's not open on the current space. Right now, it goes to whichever space has that app. Instead, I'd like it to favor the current space, ...
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Dock on Lion using lots of cpu and RAM
For some reason Dock process is using a lot of cpu and RAM ( 4GB+ at this moment ) as you can see on this image:
I tried to:
Kill the process
Restart Mac OS
Remove com.apple.Dock.plist/db and kill ...
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Drag application from Downloads folder to Applications folder in the Dock overwriting an existing application
I just downloaded an update to an application as a zip file, so I extracted the file in the Downloads folder.
I now have the old version of Foobar.app located in the Applications folder and the new ...
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How to fix this OS X Dock Tooltip encoding problem?
I'm running Lion in French and have had the following bug in my Dock for the last couple of weeks. It doesn't go away if I reboot or kill the Dock.
Have you ever seen something like that before?
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How can I hide the unread counter from Outlook 2011 Dock icon?
I find the unread counter on Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac distracting. Whenever it's there I feel the need to click on it. How can I hide the unread count?
Mail.app provides an option to disable ...
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Prevent application from displaying badge icon in Dock
Any Spotify desktop user has likely noticed their pervasive notifications: whenever "one of our friends" joins Spotify, there's both an in-app notification as well as a red badge that appears on ...
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How to prevent dock auto-hiding setting from changing?
I prefer to keep the dock "auto-hiding" setting on so that the dock is always hidden unless I mouse over it. I am aware of both the setting in "dock preferences" and the keyboard shortcut (⌥⌘D).
...
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Prevent dock from auto-showing on mouse over
I currently have dock to auto-hide and would like it to stay hidden until I explicitly show it using a keyboard shortcut such as the "Move focus to dock" or "Turn Dock Hiding On/Off". I basically ...
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Are there any way to hide the dock icon but keep the menubar icon?
Edit .plist will hide both menubar and dock icon.
Are there any way to hide the dock icon but keep the menubar icon ?
Thanks in advance.
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What does setting LSUIPresentationMode to 1 or 2 do?
While reading "Is it possible to hide the dock on a per-application basis?", I noted that according to the documentationLSUIPresentationMode, setting LSUIPresentationMode to value 1 or 2 (in an ...
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Lost Launchpad configuration
If I move an app in Launchpad and then I "killall Dock" from the terminal, the Launchpad sometimes gets its previous configuration so my changes are lost. How can I restart the Dock without losing the ...
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Trackpad gesture that minimizes all windows?
This has been driving me nuts for close to a year. I hope someone can tell me what triggers it. I've searched many times over several months and have never found any mention of it.
I use an MBP ...
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Finder does not open
Clicking on the finder icon in the dock has no effect. To open the finder I have to open the context menu and choose "New Window".
I already stoped the finder process, without success.
How can I fix ...
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Is there a dock for switching between windows?
Is there a feature or an add-on for OS X that lists the current app's open windows for quick visual switching?
The way I envision it is in the form of a second dock, say on the right-hand or ...
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Finder not showing toolbar and sidebar sometimes
I'm running OS X 10.8.2 with TotalFinder.
Recently, when launching Finder from dock stacks—for instance, the Downloads folder—by clicking the "Open in Finder", the toolbar and sidebar are both hidden ...
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Isolate OSX Dock per Space
How can I make it so that each space has its own isolated dock?
Basically what I'm looking for is:
The dock in one space should not show the icon of an app that was open in another space.
If I have ...
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Making the Dock immutable
A relative who has difficulty with mouse control keeps inadvertently removing items from his Dock. I enabled Parental Controls to prevent him from doing so, but Parental Controls has a bug that ...
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Alternative to additemtodock from Henri Shustak
I am using a commandline script to add items to the dock via scripts
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23653/add-item-to-dock
But it seems to have a lot of Bugs and maybe even "kills" my Dock config ...
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Apple Universal Dock & Bluetooth
Just acquired an azatom Tune-Stream Bluetooth dongle which turns 30-pin iPod docking stations into Bluetooth devices. However, it doesn't work when I insert it in an Apple Universal Dock (connected to ...
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does command-option-click on app icon in dock still hide all open windows?
This apple article explains it.
But it no longer hides all open windows for me under 10.7.4. What could be causing this?
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How do I show an application only in the dock assigned to a desktop?
You can assign the application in the dock to a desktop. But can you hide the application in the dock in the desktop where it is not assigned? That is, the dock in each desktop should show only the ...
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iPhone 3GS not working with any docks, ideas?
About a month ago, my iPhone 3GS just stopped working with docks in terms of playing music. It can still charge via docks and I can still connect it to my computer and iTunes for syncing, but it just ...
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How to fix “com.apple.dock.extra: … Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication” in system.log
On a recently installed (from internet via Recovery Disk) 10.7.4 Lion system the system.log is filled with multiple "com.apple.dock.extra: ... Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of ...
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How do I get Launchpad's incremental search to work again?
Launchpad's incremental search has stopped working for me. I've tried killing the Dock (Launchpad and window management is all part of the Dock) but Launchpad is still unresponsive to the keyboard. I ...
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Activating the Apple Thunderbold Display speakers when Macbook Pro is docked
Sometimes, I don't get access to the Display Audio that my Thunderbolt Apple Display provides when I dock to the machine with my MacBook Pro. The clunky way to solve this, is a reboot. I've tried ...
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Can an alias be added to the dock via the command line?
I found this article but it handles the GUI solution.
I would like to automate the setup of a new machine, and do that I've created Dropbox shares of a number of my common configurations. (I could ...
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Need an AC powered iPhone dock with audio out
I'm looking for an iPhone dock that has the standard 30 pin connector at the dock but is powered from a typical wall outlet. But also has audio out.
This also needs to work with a wireless Bluetooth ...
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Automatically removing Dock icons not consistent in Mountain Lion
I know that whenever we add an icon to the dock, it gets added to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist file.
So, when I wanted to remove a dock icon from a program, I removed the corresponding ...
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com.apple.dock.extra - maxing CPU
I've recently installed Mountain Lion and the com.apple.dock.extra process is suddenly constantly active - and is maxing my CPU usage. Activity monitor is showing usage running from as low as 45% to ...
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Fix Blank Icons in Dock Stacks and Grids
I use Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), and here's my problem: Stack and grid views of folders very often look like this:
These empty boxes are not very useful for finding files quickly. When I open ...
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Why can't I open a subfolder from a stack in my Dock?
I have the application folder as a stack in my Dock, when I click it and then click on Utilities`, the stack just disappears, but when I click it a second time, then it works.
What could be the ...
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apple.local Dock[255]: ECFileOperationRevealURL failed with -43
Cmd+click on any file can reveal them in Finder but now takes no effect.
I reviewed the console log and found following error:
May 2 00:14:12 apple.local Dock[255]: ...
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Mac app pop up durring instlaation from app store?
I am running mountain lion on mid 2009 macbook pro. I used to see an animation of app popping out of apple mac store and coming to the dock, then they changed pop up destination to mission control. ...
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How to show blinking browser window
Guys, help, please. I don't know what to do.
I'm using a web application for my job. This is interactive web chat. It opens in new window and uses tab header blinking to notify when new messages are ...
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Pressing CMD + Folder from dock opens finder at bottom page
When I press Command and click on a folder in the Dock, Finder should come up and show me it's location there. However, Finder shows up and the page is scrolled all the way to the buttom. So I have to ...
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Why is there / what is this RED, translucent square within my Apps “stacks”?
I was having trouble with growl, and was sorta moving it around within other folders, etc.. and now I have this STRANGE, translucent, Red Square underneath the icon. See below.
I've never seen ...
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“Open in Finder” dock command opens Preview instead
When I use the "Open In Finder" command in any Dock Folder Preview opens and scans the entire folder opening any file it can recognise. The same thing happens when I select an item in from the search ...
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How do I disable automatic Downloads stack reinstantiation?
I have OS X 10.7.4. Sometimes when I download a file the OS deems it appropriate to create a Downloads stack in my Dock. I don't like this and would rather it didn't presume. Is there some hidden ...
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kCGErrorIllegalArgument from com.apple.Dock.agent
I have this weird error message showing up in my console. I'm hoping to locate the problem and fix it:
com.apple.Dock.agent -> : kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSetWindowTransformAtPlacement: singular ...
