Just a reminder to watch the effect in slow motion, just hold down the Shift key as you click the minimize (yellow) button. Turn on the “suck” minimization effect by entering this terminal command: defaults write mineffect suck killall Dock But there’s also another hidden animation called “suck”, which makes the window disappear as it it’s being sucked into a vacuum cleaner! The two “normal” animations are “genie” and “scale”, and it’s easy to switch between them by using System Preferences.
In the first post, we showed you how to switch between two animations that are used when an app window is being minimized to the Dock by clicking the yellow dot in the upper left corner of the window. Turn On A Hidden Minimize/Maximize Animation To make the Dock hide and reappear immediately with no delay, replace the “2” in the Terminal command with “0” (zero) to return to the default delay, replace the “2” with “1”. This particular setting doubles the amount of time in the delay, so the Dock is a bit slower in appearing and disappearing. To change the Dock hide delay time, use the following Terminal command: defaults write autohide-time-modifier -float 2 killall Dock In the first post in this series, we showed how you can hide the Dock when it’s not in use. There’s a slight delay built into the appearance of the Dock when the cursor is hovered over the side or bottom of the Mac display where the Dock resides that same delay occurs before the Dock disappears again. To return to the “regular” Dock icons, use the same Terminal command as above, replacing the Boolean operator TRUE with FALSE. You can see the hidden app effect on the Google Chrome and Mail app icons in the image below: (The Chrome and Mail apps are hidden, with a “greyed out” look on the Dock icons) At the Terminal prompt, enter the following command (it’s easiest to just copy & paste these commands), then press Return: defaults write showhidden -bool TRUE killall Dock Oddly, Apple included a way to show hidden apps as “grayed out” on the Dock, but didn’t include a switch for it in System Preferences. That app needs to be running, but I don’t need to see what the webcam is taking photos of, so I choose to hide it. As an example, I always have a webcam app running on my Mac that sends a photo to an FTP server once every minute. This is useful when you need to have an app running, but don’t necessarily need to have a window clogging up your Mac display. In a case like that, you have probably chosen to hide the app. Sometimes you may have a Dock icon for an app but can’t find any app windows associated with it. It’s located in Applications > Utilities, and can be started easily by either asking macOS Siri to “Launch Terminal” or by selecting Go > Utilities in Finder, then double-clicking the Terminal icon. To start making any of the changes described here, you’ll need to be in the Terminal app. If you feel uncomfortable with the command-line interface, you might want to stay with the many customizations made possible through the methods described in the first two parts of this series. In today’s final post, we’ll continue by describing terminal commands that complete your mastery of the macOS Dock.Īll of the commands shown in this post require some familiarity with the macOS Terminal. Earlier this week in the second installment, we showed you how to add folders, move, add and remove icons, and how to use Terminal to add spacers or even show only active apps in the Dock.
In the first part of this series, we took you through the many settings available in the System Preferences Dock pane. Over the past week, we’ve been showing you how to customize the macOS Dock.
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