Hot answers tagged dock
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To make the Dock instantly leap back into view when it’s needed, rather than slide, open a Terminal window and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0;killall Dock
I find this useful, but if you’d like the animation for the dock to reappear to last for a split-second, try the following:
defaults write ...
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Yes. You can make it so you don't see the dock by adding a very long delay to the animation so that in practice, you never leave the mouse on the "expose the dock" target long enough to see it.
This is technically a "workaround" since the dock is still there, just slower to appear than we care about on our timescale.
Two steps are needed to set this up.
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The Dock process on OS X is responsible for more than just the actual Dock on your screen. It does a bunch of background stuff, including Dashboard. Most notably, the Finder won't function properly if the Dock process isn't running, so turning it off completely is pretty much a no-go without breaking OS X in the process.
The best I can suggest is keeping ...
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I had this same problem on my new MBP Retina. I do have Parallels installed, but the similar issue caused by Parallels has been fixed in a Parallels update (which I've installed). Moreover, none of the workarounds (e.g. deleting the Windows Applications folder from the Dock) suggested on the Parallels forum fixed the problem for me. I also tried to delete ...
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There is no easy way to do this, but there is a little hack :)
Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/
Backup DockMenus.plist
Open DockMenus.plist in your favorite text editor with root access
Find section finder-running and add new sub-section <dict>
<key>command</key>
...
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You have several different options:
Create Finder Window with a Shortcut
While this doesn't solve your problem with the dock, using a keyboard shortcut can be much faster and can help in your workflow.
Activate Finder by clicking the desktop background
(If the desktop is cluttered with windows, pinch out to clean it up and then click)
Use the New ...
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The easiest way would be the following:
Download, install and update the free Server Admin Tools from Apple.
If you´re currently logged into the Guest User Account, log out. Open /Applications/Server/Workgroup Manager and connect to Address: localhost with the username and password of your admin user
Ignore the warning message about working on a local ...
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You can kludge something together with some AppleScript and some clever icon image pasting. Here's how you'd do it for iTerm/iTerm2.
Open the AppleScript Editor and paste in the following AppleScript:
set myapp to "iTerm"
on appIsRunning(appName)
tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end appIsRunning
if ...
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This is actually still possible; however, a safe-guard to protect novice users has been added. There is now a minimum distance that you need to move the icon away from the Dock for it to be removed.
Once that distance is reached, the cursor will show a wrinkled paper icon.
Simply release the mouse then, and the icon will be removed from the dock normally.
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This can be done, but you cannot hide just the dock per app. It will hide both the Dock and the Menu bar per app.
You just have to make a quick, simple edit to the plist file for the application. Check out this article from Mac OSX Hints:
To hack an app so that when it's active, the menubar and dock are hidden, you need to find its info.plist file. ...
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Usually apps don't place themselves in the dock without your consent or knowledge. There are a couple ways to put them there though. Perhaps you may not realize it, but it may be one of these reasons:
The App Store will place an app in the Dock upon installation. Note: Lion will not do this though; it simply places it in Launchpad.
The App Store will place ...
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Instead of your specific recent documents search, you might also like this alternative:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'; killall Dock;
This adds a recent items stacks to your Dock that has customizabile viewing options (grid/fan/list/automatic) like one is ...
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In Finder, open /System/Library/PreferencePanes on Lion for the system preference panes or /Library/PreferencePanes or ~/Library/PreferencePanes/ for user-added ones.
Drag the icon of your choice from the folder to the Dock. It will probably only go on the right side (the documents/folders/minimized windows/Trash side) of the divider.
Clicking the new ...
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I have not tried it myself, but I read in a review that they intentionally made it harder to accidentally remove icons from the Dock.
Trying dragging the icon a good distance away from the dock and holding it there for a couple seconds, it should show you some kind of "about to poof this" indicator, and then drop it.
At least, that's what I got from the ...
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You can do this with Workgroup Manager, which is part of the Server Admin Tools. Despite the name, you can install the tools on any Mac.
Download Links: Snow Leopard | Leopard
Run Workgroup Manager when you're logged in as an admin user and select the Guest account in the list, then Preferences. Set the dock to "Manage Always." You should then be able to ...
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Hyperdock will let you do something similar. It doesn't seem to support double clicking, but I have my system set up so a middle-click on the finder icon opens a new window.
It's also an awesome dock enhancement, and brings the dock much closer to the usability of the windows taskbar (i.e. you can switch to a specific other window without having to use ...
6
1) The pre-installed Apple applications generally won't get updated by Software Update if they are moved. The Developer applications won't work properly if moved. I honestly haven't tried complex installs like Photoshop to see if they can be moved. But most applications that you download from a website as a zip or dmg can be installed where ever you like -- ...
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You can manually set the time it takes for the dock to appear.
Unlike the autohide-time-modifier tip posted by Marius Butuc, this command does not remove the animation of the Dock when it appears.
First, activate auto-hide in System Preferences → Dock → Autohide or type ⌘+⌥+D
Then open the Terminal and type:
defaults write ...
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You can't put a folder in the left side of your Dock where the programs are, but you can drag a folder to the right side of your Dock. In Leopard (10.5) or later, by default, the folder will appear as a stack, but starting in 10.5.2, you have options for how the folder or stack appears. In Lion (10.7), for instance, you can select whether you want the folder ...
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Right-click or Control+click on the Documents folder in the Finder, and click 'Make Alias'.
You probably want to move the alias somewhere else and rename it "Documents". Then, drag the Documents alias into the Dock.
Voíla, a link to the Documents folder instead of a Documents folder stack.
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In a word, "No".
The dock is dynamically sized as you have found on the basis of the number of applications stored, or running, and the amount of document windows you may have minimised.
There is no way to stop it exhibiting this behaviour, and if you think about it it would cause considerable usability issues if it were to do so, as the only way to ...
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You're going to need the Developer Tools installed to do this, so that you can open up .plist files in the Property Editor.
You can edit the com.apple.dock.plist file that is stored in /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences to get rid of all names of persistent applications (e.g. icons that stay in the dock even when you've quit out of them). In-depth ...
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Unfortunately, a lot of the graphics on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display are a bit choppy (for example, scrolling and window resizing). The new rMBP simply has a lot of pixels, and the graphics card is no better than the one in the regular MBP. In the next few years we can probably expect this to improve with further software optimizations and better ...
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See the question Terminal doesn't show badge - how to enable?. In the accepted answer it says:
There is also an "unread text" indicator displayed in tabs, in the
form of ellipsis ("…"):
This is displayed when anything is written to a background terminal, and, like the bell indicator, cleared when you activate that
terminal window/tab. An "unread ...
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Thankfully, this feature isn't completely gone. It has just, for some reason, been whisked away into the depths of less-than-obvious multi-touch gestures in OS X Lion and newer. You now have to double-tap an app icon on the Dock with two fingers to activate Dock Exposé.
I'm not sure if this gesture ever existed on OS X Snow Leopard.
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I would suggest you set up a hot corner to show the desktop (this is what I do):
Open System Preferences
Click Mission Control
Click the "Hot Corners..." button at the bottom
Set the corner you want to use for "Desktop" (I use the top right)
Click OK
Now you can move a file from a Finder window to the desktop with just the mouse:
Click and drag the ...
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Important Note: In Mac OS X 10.5+ the method explained below only works for apps which are not using the "Code Signing" feature which was introduced in 10.5 to ensure authenticity of running code. The result of applying this method to a signed app differs; it might cause the app to crash upon starting or results it unexpected behavior.
You can edit the ...
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The following AppleScript does what you want:
on run
tell application "Finder"
make new Finder window
activate
end tell
end run
Open Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript folder, and paste the above in to a new script. Save it somewhere as a "File Format: Application" with "Stay Open" not checked.
Then drag that ...
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@mankoff got me on the right path. Here's what I had to do in order to get what I want:
Copy Terminal.app to a new file (ex: MyTerminal.app)
Change the icon of the app by:
Copy an icon image to the clipboard from Preview
Right-click (Command-click) on the app
Select "Get Info"
Click the app icon in the upper left corner
Pasting the new icon image from ...
4
This looks like it might be a problem with a system font. Try this...
Open Font Book (in /Applications)
Select the "All Fonts" collection in the left-hand pane
Click any font in the right-hand pane to focus that pane
Select all the fonts using Edit -> Select All or Cmd+A
In the File menu, click "Validate Fonts"
If any fonts are corrupt, this method ...
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