On Jun 11, 2005, at 9:37 AM, studio52 at insightbb.com wrote: > Hi Group! I read about Spotlight and figured it was just something > else I would never use. Was I ever wrong, it has changed the way I > use my Mac. Between Spotlight and CMD + Tab to navigate open Apps, > I have no need for a Dock. As a full screen Photoshop user the dock > is a PITA. Does anyone know or could you point me to a "reliable" > method to disable dock.app? I logged in as root, put dock.app into > an untitled folder, rebooted and Finder was very erratic, Photoshop > crashed etc.:-) Obviously that doesn't work! TIA...Jerry Freeman >
Do this: Navigate to your home folder and then inside your Library folder in your home folder. Inside your Library folder you will find a folder called Preferences. Inside that folder you will find a file called com.apple.dock.plist which in Tiger is a binary file, so you must use Property List Editor to open it (there is another way using a command line utility called plutil, but stick to the app instead). Once you open it, locate the key orientation and change it from bottom (it could say right or left too) to top. Save the file. Now log out and log back in. Your Dock will be on the top. Now go to your Dock preferences and Hide the Dock. It will still be there but out of your way. I have sent you Property List Editor separately so you won't have to download the Developer Tools. Schoun | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
