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The special transparent bar (usually at the bottom) of a macOS desktop which houses applications, stacks, and the trashcan or on the home screen of iOS devices that provide easy access to commonly used applications.

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Sierra: Dock Menu disappears too fast

There are a couple of possibilities for why this is occurring: There's a bug with the Dock. Restart the Dock with killall Dock or log out and back in. …
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OS X 10.8.5: Can I move icons around in the dock and not have them stay there when the apps ...

You can remove all closed apps from the Dock (even if they are set to 'Keep in Dock') with the following command: defaults delete com.apple.dock static-only You can assign a hotkey to run this, or set …
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Downloads stack progress bar "stuck" at 100% after completion of downloads

There's a bug with Google Chrome that seems to have been fixed. Make sure your Chrome is up to date. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150743
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putting a shortcut to dock

You can put aliases on the Dock to the right of the separator line. Only applications can go left. …
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Do app developers have the option to prevent their window from being 'zoomed'?

Yes. App developers can set AppleActionOnDoubleClick to ‘Maximize’, ‘Minimize’ or ‘None’.
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Dock disappearing on Mac

You've probably enabled Dock hiding. You can toggle this by pressing ⌥⌘D. …
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Is there a way to set the dock height in fixed pixels?

The Dock height is delineated by the size of the icons on the Dock, called the tilesize. … defaults write com.apple.Dock tilesize -int 29 && killall -HUP Dock
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Maximise Dock to full width

Install, enable and choose Fullscreen width Dock. …
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Changing The Dock's Appearance From 3D to 2D?

You can use the the following Terminal command: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES && killall -HUP Dock To go back to 3D, run the following command (replace YES with NO): defaults … write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO && killall -HUP Dock
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Maverick - OSX dock auto hides when connecting a display through hdmi?

It's due to the new multi-display handling in Mavericks where the Dock can be made to show on both displays. It's not actually 'auto-hiding' hence why the auto-hiding is still disabled. …
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How to fix blank icons for Download and Documents stacks in the Dock

Source If that doesn't work, try backing up and removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist and relaunching the Dock (killall -HUP Dock). …
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Assign an agent app to all desktops

Assign the app to All Desktops, then set LSUIElement to 1. It should remember the change and abide by it even though it now runs as an agent.
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contents-immutable and locking the Dock

The property list you are referring to is com.apple.dock.plist. Try using com.apple.dock as the domain.
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What are the dimensions for the apple dock icons?

An app's Dock Tile Icon should be 1024 × 1024. … For more information about customising your Dock Tile, see the documentation: Mac Developer Library: Dock Tile Programming Guide Keep in mind that implementation (software development) is off-topic …
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Cannot Add, Remove, Move, or Drag icons from Dock

Make sure the Dock is not locked: defaults delete com.apple.Dock contents-immutable && killall -HUP Dock
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