Hi, I wanted to try this and I'm running 10.3.9. I went to version tracker and downloaded Property List Editor Pro. I made a copy of com.apple.dock.plist and used property list editor to open the file. Nowhere in the file can I find "key orientation" or the words bottom, right, or left. I even copied the text to an appleworks document and did the search with in appleworks.
What am I missing? Thanks. Harry Saturday, June 11, 20059:12 PMSchoun Reganschounregan at mac.com > >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> | 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>
