When you get a new Mac, the Dock is flooded with useless icons that can more easily be reached with the Launchpad. To purge it of all the default app icons and start fresh, use this next command: defaults delete com.apple.dock persistent-apps defaults delete com.apple.dock persistent-others. Jan 16, 2019 Right-click or Control-click on the app icon in the Dock. Select Options under the drop-down menu. Click on Keep in Dock. You can alternatively just drag the icon to a different position in your Dock, which will automatically save it as a favorite shortcut.
(The macOS Dock)
Over the past week, weâve been showing you how to customize the macOS Dock. In the first part of this series, we took you through the many settings available in the System Preferences Dock pane. Earlier this week in the second installment, we showed you how to add folders, move, add and remove icons, and how to use Terminal to add spacers or even show only active apps in the Dock. In todayâs final post, weâll continue by describing terminal commands that complete your mastery of the macOS Dock.
All of the commands shown in this post require some familiarity with the macOS Terminal. If you feel uncomfortable with the command-line interface, you might want to stay with the many customizations made possible through the methods described in the first two parts of this series.
To start making any of the changes described here, youâll need to be in the Terminal app. Itâs located in Applications > Utilities, and can be started easily by either asking macOS Siri to âLaunch Terminalâ or by selecting Go > Utilities in Finder, then double-clicking the Terminal icon.
See Which Apps Are âHiddenâ
Sometimes you may have a Dock icon for an app but canât find any app windows associated with it. In a case like that, you have probably chosen to hide the app. This is useful when you need to have an app running, but donât necessarily need to have a window clogging up your Mac display. As an example, I always have a webcam app running on my Mac that sends a photo to an FTP server once every minute. That app needs to be running, but I donât need to see what the webcam is taking photos of, so I choose to hide it.
Oddly, Apple included a way to show hidden apps as âgrayed outâ on the Dock, but didnât include a switch for it in System Preferences. At the Terminal prompt, enter the following command (itâs easiest to just copy & paste these commands), then press Return:
You can see the hidden app effect on the Google Chrome and Mail app icons in the image below:
(The Chrome and Mail apps are hidden, with a âgreyed outâ look on the Dock icons)
To return to the âregularâ Dock icons, use the same Terminal command as above, replacing the Boolean operator TRUE with FALSE.
Change the Dock Hide Delay
In the first post in this series, we showed how you can hide the Dock when itâs not in use. Thereâs a slight delay built into the appearance of the Dock when the cursor is hovered over the side or bottom of the Mac display where the Dock resides; that same delay occurs before the Dock disappears again.
To change the Dock hide delay time, use the following Terminal command:
This particular setting doubles the amount of time in the delay, so the Dock is a bit slower in appearing and disappearing. To make the Dock hide and reappear immediately with no delay, replace the â2â in the Terminal command with â0â (zero); to return to the default delay, replace the â2â with â1â.
Turn On A Hidden Minimize/Maximize Animation
In the first post, we showed you how to switch between two animations that are used when an app window is being minimized to the Dock by clicking the yellow dot in the upper left corner of the window. The two ânormalâ animations are âgenieâ and âscaleâ, and itâs easy to switch between them by using System Preferences. But thereâs also another hidden animation called âsuckâ, which makes the window disappear as it itâs being sucked into a vacuum cleaner!
1 day ago Day One is a great digital journaling experience that lets you insert photos, save voice recordings, and export your logs in various formats, like PDFs. Your journal entries are end-to-end. Export photos in a selected format. In the Photos app on your Mac, select the item you want to export. Choose File Export Export number Photos. Click the Photo Kind pop-up menu and choose the file type for the exported photos. JPEG creates small-size files suitable for use with websites. Jan 04, 2020 It's not really meant to be a robust editing app, so If you are looking for something to really finish your photos right, we've got a list of the best photo editors for Mac right here. Affinity Photo. Fotor Photo Editor. Apps to save pictures on mac. Jun 25, 2020 Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac with a USB cable. Open the Photos app. The Photos app shows an Import screen with all the photos and videos that are on your connected device. If the Import screen doesn't automatically appear, click the device's name in the Photos sidebar. If asked, unlock your iOS device using your passcode. Jul 04, 2017 First, head to the Applications folder and open the Preview app (or search for it with Spotlight). Preview will direct you to open the images you want, so browse to the folder where they are kept and select them. Use the Command key to select multiple images. When youâre done selecting images, click the âOpenâ button.
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Turn on the âsuckâ minimization effect by entering this terminal command:
Just a reminder; to watch the effect in slow motion, just hold down the Shift key as you click the minimize (yellow) button. Hereâs what this animation looks like in action:
(The âsuckâ animation for minimized windows)
To revert to either the âgenieâ or âscaleâ animations, run the Terminal command again, replacing the word âsuckâ with the appropriate animation name.
Adding Custom Stacks to the Dock
In the second installment of this series, we showed how to add folders to the Dock for applications, downloads and documents. One setting turns those folders into âstacksâ that show the contents of directories without opening a Finder window. Wouldnât it be nice to have stacks that could display recently opened applications, documents or even servers?
Yes, thereâs a Terminal command for that! Enter this command into Terminal:
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After running this command and right-clicking the new stack to change it to a grid view of my recent applications, this is what I saw:
(The âRecent Applicationsâ stack viewed as a grid)
Recently-run applications arenât the only stack available; right-click the stack icon in the Dock to view a menu display the choices. Recent Applications, Recent Documents, Recent Servers, Favorite Volumes and Favorite Items are all available with a quick menu selection (see screenshot below).
(Other Dock stacks that are available)
To delete the stack from the Dock, just drag it off the Dock and let goâ¦
Setting Everything Back to Defaults
If at any point during your Dock adventures you need to set everything back to the original macOS defaults, thereâs a Terminal command for that as well: defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock
That command simply deletes the Dock preferences file, then restarts the Dock. Howeverâ¦this command also gets rid of any customizations you have made, including adding or deleting certain app icons, so be sure to use it only as a last resort.
If you have any Dock customizations that we havenât listed in this three-part series, please let us know in the comments below and we may revisit them in a future article!
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Would you like to add frequently used applications or documents to your Dock? Would you like to remove rarely used items from the Dock? If so, below are instructions on how to do this. The Dock is the row of icons thatâs typically located across the bottom of the screen, though it can be moved. Apple populates the Dock with items that they think, or want, you to use, but you can customize it to suit your own needs. You can add applications, documents or folders to the dock.
Dock Basics
Rearrange Items On The Dock
Remove Items From The Dock
Add Applications To The Dock
Add Files or Folders To The Dock
Change The Dockâs Location
You might also be interested in Appleâs Dock overview article.
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