So the reasoning is: put the dock on top. then, when you hide it, it will have no chance to pop up accidentally. Well, that makes sense - some sense at least. So maybe Jerry Freeman should try this workaround. I wonder, though, whether the menu bar would turn up then instead of the dock . Every time I use the full screen, each touch of the mouse will bring up the menubar in my iMac. ( I m speaking of DVDplayer, iTunes etc where you might want full screen mode) Marta On Jun 11, 2005, at 23:52, Schoun Regan wrote:
> > On Jun 11, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> Then why Schoun's elaborate explanation and telling you to go into >> the library folder to put the dock on top,if it does only hide the >> dock anyway and not disable it? The hiding you can have with less >> effort. But as you explain, it would make the dock pop up no matter >> where it is located. I simply was confused about Schoun's answer to >> your question. ( I don't run Tiger as yet) - Instead of a flyswatter >> you might try to sweet talk it, it is less violent and the soft >> response might change the dock's stubborn behavior! > > Marta, several applications make use of the entire screen and often > times all of use run the mouse to the edges of the screen to get to a > palette, or resize a window. Just hiding the Dock on the left, right, > or bottom can still cause the Dock to accidentally pop up when the > user goes to far with their mouse. Putting it up on top hides it > behind the Menu Bar, so there is virtually no chance that the Dock > will appear (actually, there is a one pixel wide line that if you are > VERY careful, you can get it to pop up). > The Dock continues to run, which the system needs, but the user does > not see it, which was the intended goal. > My explanation was: > > Locate the file > Open the file > Make the change > Save the file > Log out and back in to see the changes > > -s > > > | 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> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2200 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050612/74900db0/attachment.bin
