![]() Subtle as they are, you may find them distracting. Show indicator lights for open applications: I just mentioned those small gray “lights” that appear under active applications. To view the Dock, just move your pointer to the space it once occupied. When you do, it will disappear into the bottom or side of your Mac’s display (depending on how you’ve configured the ‘Position on screen’ setting). You can tell the Dock to scram by switching on this option. Turn this option off, and the only hint you’ll have that the application is going about its business is the small gray “light” that appears under the icon.Īutomatically hide and show the Dock: Helpful as the Dock is, it can get in the way, particularly when you’re working in windows that take up nearly the entirety of your screen. Click that application icon in the Dock, and the window reappears.Īnimate opening applications: By default, when you start an application, its icon hops up and down a few times indicating that the application really is launching and you should be patient. Rather, it swoops down into the application associated with it. Now, when you minimize a window, it doesn’t appear in the right side of the Dock. Minimize windows into application icon: If you want your Dock to be the tiniest bit tidier, enable this option. Just double-click the title bar of any window to minimize it. The options below are largely self-explanatory.ĭouble-click a window’s title bar to minimize: Enable this option, and you can avoid that yellow minimize button. To cause your window to reappear, just click its icon in the Dock (you can do this in slo-mo too, if you like). If you’d like a better look at what’s happening, hold down the Shift key and then click the yellow button this action causes the window to minimize in slow motion. The Scale effect maintains the window’s current proportions and simply reduces its size as it moves to the Dock. The Genie effect causes the window to compress at the bottom and appear to be sucked down into the Dock. You can try them for yourself by clicking the yellow minimize button of the Dock preference’s window. The default setting is Genie, and the other is Scale. When you minimize windows they can disappear into the Dock with one of two effects (there’s a secret third effect, but not one we’re yet ready to look at). Click Bottom, and the Dock returns to its original appearance and location. Choose Right instead, and you get the same look on the right side of the display. ![]() In the ‘Position on screen’ area of the preference, click the Left option to make the Dock hug the left side of the screen (and lose its 3D countenance). ![]() Hold down the Option key while clicking and holding on an active application in the Dock, and you have the ability to force-quit the application.Īlthough the Dock appears at the bottom of the Mac’s screen by default, it needn’t. Click and hold on the iTunes icon once you’ve launched that program, and you get options for playing music in your iTunes library. For example, if you click and hold on the System Preferences icon, a list containing all your system preferences will appear, making it easier to go directly to the preference you wish to access. Click and hold on a Dock item, and you’ll find options appropriate for it. Hover your pointer over a Dock item, and you’ll see its name appear. You must first quit the application once you do, you can remove it. Note, however, that you can’t drag the icon of an active application to the desktop in the hope that you’ll remove its icon from the Dock. Because it’s an alias you can safely remove it from the Dock by dragging it to the desktop without fear of deleting the original. The items in the Dock are aliases of the original items, meaning that when you click the Safari icon to launch the browser, for example, you’re really clicking an icon that represents Safari rather than the true-blue Safari application itself.
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