Hi Peter This may not be any help, but have you tried looking at the values already there? In your terminal type "defaults --h" (without the quotes) to learn about some more options, for example you can use "defaults read com.apple.dock" to have a look at the current defaults for that domain but there will probably be a lot, or "defaults read com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack" to see the value for that specific key if it exists.
-----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Hinchliffe Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:45 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: For the adventurous... 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 -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
