Dock goes weird sometimes

lamina

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Mar 30, 2006

• #1

Every once in a while, my dock will refuse to come out of hiding. Magnification stops working and when I turn hiding off, it stays stuck on one part of the dock magnified, if that makes sense.

Is there a way to 'restart' my dock without rebooting?

 

eva01

macrumors 601

• Mar 30, 2006

• #2

Go into activity monitor and force quit dock

happens to me on my PM randomly

 

lamina

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Mar 30, 2006

• #3

Will it automatically restart dock?

 

gauchogolfer

macrumors 603

• Mar 30, 2006

• #4

lamina said:

Will it automatically restart dock?

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Absolutely, in fact that's the only way I know to restart. Candybar does it after applying icon changes 😀

 

eva01

macrumors 601

• Mar 30, 2006

• #5

lamina said:

Will it automatically restart dock?

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As the previous poster stated, yes it automatically restarts.

Just do remember that if you are under Tiger. It will also kill all your widgets. So remember that incase one of them is monitoring something important.

to reactivate widgets just press F12 again (or whatever hotkey you have it set to activate dashboard)