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Aug 10, 2009

Dock Dividers

Here’s a quick tip on how to make the dock in Leopard look less garish. First, switch off the 3D effect by typing the following into a terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

When the dock relaunches it should look nice and minimalist. I also like to use Dock Dividers to group my applications. As Brandon Kelly, the creator of Dock Dividers, explains: Dock Dividers are little do-nothing apps that you can place in your Mac’s dock to visually separate your apps into groups.

Since you can only have user-generated content on the right side of the Dock, I copied the icon from the application and pasted it onto folders. I named the new “document dividers” with spaces to help me separate folders and documents I like to have there.

And here’s a quick before and after comparison. Enjoy!


Category: Apple, Mac, OSX, Tech

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  • http://www.markdoubleday.co.uk Mark Doubleday

    How would you go about reversing this if you didn’t like?

    Hope all is well. md x

  • http://www.markdoubleday.co.uk Mark Doubleday

    How would you go about reversing this if you didn’t like?

    Hope all is well.

    md x

  • http://haniblog.com Hani

    Hi Mark!

    Very simple to go back to the 3d Dock. Just type this in a terminal:

    defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock

    For the dividers, just pull them out of the dock and they’ll disappear.

  • doublavoo

    Very cool! I’ve been wishing for something like this for a while. Thanks for the tip!

  • http://haniblog.com Hani

    No problems. Enjoy!

  • GP

    Whereabouts is the ‘terminal’ that I type

    defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall

    into? thanks

  • http://haniblog.com Hani

    It should be in the Utilities folder within Applications. Just hit the Spotlight magnifying glass icon on the top righthand corner of the screen, type Terminal and then hit the enter key when it appears.

    HTH

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