Comments on: Snow Leopard hidden Dock preference

By: elspub

elspub — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:46:08 +0000

In 10.6.2 default behavior has changed. Click-hold on dock apps now activates Dock Expose AND shows the dock app’s standard contextual menu

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:37:08 +0000

Yep. Double-checked under 10.6.1. the command line provided above:

defaults write com.apple.Dock show-expose-menus -bool no; killall Dock

does not stop the Exposé ‘madness’…

I am sudo -s when I perform the command. thx.

I submitted a Bug Report to Apple on this gem.

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:24:01 +0000

Do you have the 10.6.1 version of command line which will (hopefully) kill Expose at the dock?

Boy, talk about a hugh mental interrupter, nothing i can recall is so visually imposing… Apple? May I REQUEST you place an item in Apple Menu > System Preferences > Exposé and Spaces > Exposé > ‘• Enable Exposé use with dock’ ?

By: Using the 10.5-style contextual dock menu in 10.6.x « Der Flounder

Using the 10.5-style contextual dock menu in 10.6.x « Der Flounder — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:02:25 +0000

[...] somebody has found it. Here’s how you tell the Dock to use the 10.5.x-style dock contextual [...]

By: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Devuelve a los iconos en el Dock los menús contextuales al hacer click y mantener

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:32:12 +0000

[...] La solución a este problema para algunos usuarios es de Jeff Johnson de Lap Cat Software [...]

By: David Shepherdson

David Shepherdson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:46:56 +0000

Thank you, Lap Cat Software! This was the most annoying change in Snow Leopard for me, because it just slowed things down so much when all I wanted to do was (for example) quit an application. (Also, when memory is tight on your machine and apps are swapped out, doing the Exposé thing when you press the Dock icon means the app you clicked gets swapped back in, making the process even slower if you just wanted to quit the app to free up some memory!)

By: paul

paul — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:24:05 +0000

Thank you! Now I can control iTunes from the dock icon again.

By: Avem7

Avem7 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:06:00 +0000

This won’t work if you don’t have any windows opened. Let’s say MS word, the app is open but All the windows are closed, than when you move a file over the app in the dock, expose will kick in, the screen will get dark and you can’t dop the file. I too prefder the old way.

By: Swordfish

Swordfish — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:47:31 +0000

San Diego Wedding DJ, I don’t see what’s the problem. When exposé kicks in, just drag your file and hover over the window of your choice. Windows in exposé will pop to the foreground in the same way applications in the dock do.

By: San Diego Wedding DJ

San Diego Wedding DJ — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:54:08 +0000

If you’re looking for a reason that makes sense, here it is: Try dragging and dropping from a maximized window to another window. You used to be able to drag down to the dock, then hover on an app, it would switch to the app, then you drag up and drop the file into the app. Works well with VLC, Adobe apps, etc. With this new behavior, you drag down to the app, the expose kicks in and you can’t drop your file. Very annoying and counter-productive. Nice feature, but not well thought out, unfortunately.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:50:30 +0000

Thanks – great tip.
If anyone now could fix the new Exposè to its perfectly working Leopard status, i’ll will be very happy.

Apple screwed this one seriously.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:48:12 +0000

This is great for those of us that use 1 button mice and want easy access to that contextual menu. Thanks!

By: tajmahal

tajmahal — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:45:18 +0000

Just locate the Apps folder in Finder and drag it to the right side of the Dock.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:19:27 +0000

Can I ask a question? I have Snow Leopard – but for some reason don’t have an Apps folder on my Dock.

Any ideas?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:18:06 +0000

Amazing.

Thanks Jeff.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:14:52 +0000

Stephen, change ‘no’ to ‘yes’.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:10:40 +0000

so… how would you undo this? sorry, not a mac genius. thanks in advance!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:26:25 +0000

best tip ever. works right away. and yes, I’m a click and hold for menu functions kinda guy, and the expose was driving me nuts!! now if only the new iTunes would go to minimized mode when I click the green gumdrop…

By: Monica S.

Monica S. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:39:56 +0000

Brilliant. I am pretty sure this will save my sanity.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:41:11 +0000

thank you, this was driving me crazy

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:27:41 +0000

Other bizarre reason might be that you are used to access the menu of the applications in the dock by click and hold instead of making a right click. Like switching songs in iTunes. So your tip is nice.

By: pendraggon87

pendraggon87 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:53:57 +0000

Where did you find this out? I ran the strings command on the Dock binary but could not find that setting.

By: Cédric Luthi

Cédric Luthi — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:37:06 +0000

When I saw the demo of this feature, I wondered what was so different from F10, except for the small delay