Monday, October 29, 2007

Turn-off Leopards 3D Dock

Just noticed that if you place your dock on either side of the screen you get a flat dock, instead of that floating 3d look. As much as I like the 3D look, I liked the flat look even more, so after poking around I found out how to disable the 3D look. Open a Terminal window and type in the following two commands:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

To get the 3D floating dock back you open a Terminal and type the "opposite" two commands:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO
killall Dock

Keep coming back.....there will be more soon :-)

4 comments:

Fazar said...

ahhh Thank you!

Anonymous said...

anywhere i can send paypal donation? very impressed with this!! any other cool tips?

Many said...

Hello Anonymous,

Thank you, I'm glad you found something useful on my blog. Regarding donations, thanks, but I really don't need it. I do this as a hobby (and part of my day-to-day work at the university). I would instead appreciate if you could recommend me to friends/family and help spread the word :-).

BTW there are some more tips coming shortly....keep checking back :-).

TTYL
Many

JPierre said...

I just love this hack. Thanks.