How to move dock items?

Question

Options gives me

(slack)

or

(chrome)

but I don't get the options to rearrange the icons in the dock. I can't 'drag' the item either. How can I achieve this?

I am on yosemite 10.10.2

Answer 1

It's a smooth click and upward motion on an icon using your mouse or trackpad to rearrange icons in the Dock. Don't click-and-hold, click and move -- if you click and hold you'll get the option menu overlay for the application.

Tried to make a little gyfcat that shows it happening:

http://www.gfycat.com/ClearcutUnluckyAndeancondor

This irregardless of the setting for Keep in Dock on the application. In the above example I'm moving apps that have Keep in Dock set and not set. They're all re-arrangeable.

Answer 2

One option was to uncheck 'Keep in Dock' (context-click) to remove it, then:
open the applications folder to find the program and then:
drag it to the new desired place in the dock. Finally recheck Options -> 'Keep in Dock'

Answer 3

For me the follow worked:

• Launch "Launchpad"
• while Launchpad is open
  • remove the Icon you want to rearrange from the dock by dragging it upwards on the screen
  • re-add the Icon from the Launchpad list at the position you wanna have it

good luck.