OK Keith,
Let's take your specific example.
1. Navigate to your desktop with command+Tab until you reach your Finder.
2. Press command+Shift+A to open your applications directory.
3. type VM which hopefully will land you on VMWare Fusion.app. If not then
please navigate to it yourself, but don't hit command+O.
4. Now, to add it to your dock, simply press command+Shift+T, if you're
running anything Lion or earlier. If you're on Mountain Lion or later all
the way up to El Capitan, then the command will be command+ctrl+shift+T. In
other words, Mountain Lion or later, add the control key. So, most likely,
in your case, you'll hit command+control+Shift+T. A good mnumonic for this
to remember the letter T is, think, "To... the dock."
Now, to access your dock from anywhere at all, you have a few options.
1. The most common way: Press VO+D. You probably know that already, but
want to be sure I don't leave something out.
2. You also can press ctrl+F3. The only thing worth noting about this
method is, remember that if your function keys are set to hardware right
now, then you'll have to add the FN key to that, making the command actually
be fn+Ctrl+F3.
3. Another way is if you have trackpad commander enabled, at which point,
you can two finger double tap at the bottom of the trackpad.
4. There is a way with numpad commander. I think it was numpad 3, but I
can't test this over here effectively, as I've remapped a few of the keys on
my numpad, that I believe, being one of them. As my numpad 3 isn't doing
anything.
The final tip, Keith, that I'd like to give you is for moving things on your
dock.
If you navigate to your dock, then find the item you want to move, Voiceover
won't say anything when you do this, but if you press ctrl+left arrow,
you'll move the item one position to the left in the dock, and ctrl+right
arrow will do the same, moving it one position to the right. Again,
Voiceover won't say anything when you do this, but after you do so, if you
then vo+left and right arrow and check what you did, you'll see that it
worked.
These commands obviously will change to ctrl+up arrow, and ctrl+down arrow
if you have your docked positioned either on the left or the right, instead
of the default which is on the bottom.
Also, don't forget that if you VO+M, go into the Apple Menu, then go to the
dock sub menu, you can set the dock to auto hide unless the mouse either
hovers into it's area, at which point, it'll pop up, or unless you use one
of the above methods to access it.
If you want to remove an item from your dock, find it in the dock, then hit
vo+Shift+M. Go to the options sub menu, and in there, you'll find remove
from dock.
I hope this helps.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Hinton" <[email protected]>
To: "macvisionaries" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:21 AM
Subject: Adding items not running to the dock?
Hi folks,
I'm curious, but how does somebody go about adding an application that
might not currently be running to the dock?
The dock is a feature of OS Ten despite having used OS Ten for over
two years now that I've never really used.
Usually, I've always gone in to the applications area and launched an
application with command-O.
I'd like to start adding other applications other than Mail, Safari,
etc to the Dock though for faster access.
VMware Fusion is an application that I tend to do serious Windows work
in for quite a lot of things.
So, how might I go about adding Fusion to the dock for example for
faster productivity?
Thanks,
Keith
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