"Stacks" in the dock were introduced in Leopard, but even now there is no option available when right-clicking that determines whether it normally opens in a Finder window when clicked. As far as I know that can only be done by clicking in combination with the Command and Option keys.
Interestingly, I have a smart folder in the dock and when I click that it just opens the folder in a Finder window. There's a handy bunch of terminal tips here, the first one of which is fun!: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/terminal-commands-for-hidden-settings-in-snow-leopard.html Sadly I can't find any that say how to get an ordinary folder to directly open when clicking on it in the dock. Yet. Stephen On 28 Apr 2011, at 23:26, Jason Davies wrote: > wasn,t this introduced in Snow Leopard? > > right click to get "open [folder]" and to see the options for how it behaves > when clicked. > > personalyl I wish it could be set to just open again... > > > > Stephen Watson wrote: >> As far as memory serves, I've never changed the operation of the dock at all >> with any terminal tweaks, but then at my age ... >> >> I suppose the thing to do is find out the behaviour from other SMUGgers and >> see if theirs behave as mine does or yours. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> >> On 28 Apr 2011, at 21:09, Toby Leighton wrote: >> >>> If it started exhibiting this behaviour after a repair, then perhaps a PRAM >>> reset or disk permisions check might fix it. >>> >>> I can't think how either of those two are related to the dock, but then its >>> a mac... PRAM and disk permissions seem to be the miracle fix for all >>> kinds of little quirks. >>> >>> Thinking further though... because I can't get my dock folders to open in >>> finder, only as list or grid, did you by any chance a long long time ago >>> open terminal and type something like >>> >>> defaults write com.apple.dock <something> >>> >>> Thats how nice system tweaks get performed, maybe you customized the dock >>> behaviour manually so long ago that you've forgotten. >> >> "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination" - John Lennon A world that has nearly seven billion people on it and a rapidly dwindling supply of fossil fuels, after all, has better ways to manage its affairs than those based on the assumption that putting people out of work and replacing them with fossil fuels is the way to prosperity. - John Michael Greer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
