Once you’ve clicked on a given Stack in the Dock, you can select an
item in that Stack (in either fan or grid view) by clicking it with
the mouse, by pressing a few letters of the item’s name, or by using
the arrow keys. If you use this last method, you’ll notice something
interesting in both fan and grid view: the currently-selected item is
highlighted. When in fan view mode, you’ll see a subtle blue box
around the selected item; in grid view mode, a silver-gray gradient
surrounds the selection.
You can enable that same silver-gray gradient to be used even if
you’re using the mouse to select items in grid view mode (it doesn’t,
however, enable the blue highlight when using the mouse in fan view
mode). All it takes to enable this feature is one quick trip to
Terminal, and two commands, only one of which is somewhat complicated
looking. Open Terminal, in Applications -> Utilities, and type these
two commands, pressing Return after each line:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean yes
killall Dock
The first line above sets a hidden preference value to yes; the second
restarts the Dock so that change takes effect.*
My problem is that this works as described on my iMac, but not my
Macbook Pro. I'm wondering there are any Macbook Pro Terminal dwellers
out there who CAN get this to work. That is, is this a software or a
hardware problem on my machine?
*slightly paraphrased from an article by Rob Griffiths of Macworld
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