2D Dock in OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

[w0lf]

Thank you! You've helped me out before with your coding. You are very talented. Thank you.

So cDock is your program? Impressive.

Yes I 'made' cDock but app really wouldn't be possible without other peoples great work.

It's really a great little app.

I'm on a brand new, less-than-a-month-old Macbook Pro running 10.9.3. I'm having problems with intermittently having to re-install my transparent dock - sometimes when I log in, it's back to the ugly frosty background with the crappy border/corners.

It's really hard to troubleshoot for the handful of people that have this issue because I can't reproduce it myself.

Check out the most recent version (5.2). It may or may not fix the issue. It also comes with an attempt workaround script (~/Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command) if it's still not working.

Tonight, my indicator images (that show which apps are running) have disappeared. I had replaced them with my own little black and red arrow images some days ago.

Any ideas? Thanks, wolf - you rock.

That sounds unrelated to cDock. Make sure you have "Show indicators for open applications" checked in System Preferences > Dock

You can also enable them with this terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.dock show-process-indicators -bool true; killall Dock

 

[scapmac]

When I attempted to run /Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command I realized that there is no cdock folder in application support?

 

[w0lf]

When I attempted to run /Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command I realized that there is no cdock folder in application support?

You have to install a dock first. Also it's ~/Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command Not /Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command

 

[scapmac]

You have to install a dock first. Also it's ~/Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command Not /Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command

I have installed a dock. When I navigate to the Application Support folder through Finder, I don't see a cDock folder.

http://i62.tinypic.com/10eom5c.png


Ran ~/Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command:

scapling:~ scap$ ~/Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command
-bash: /Users/scap/Library/Application: No such file or directory

 

[w0lf]

I have installed a dock. When I navigate to the Application Support folder through Finder, I don't see a cDock folder.

http://i62.tinypic.com/10eom5c.png


Ran ~/Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command:

scapling:~ scap$ ~/Library/Application Support/cDock/launch_fix.command
-bash: /Users/scap/Library/Application: No such file or directory

Once again it's NOT /Library (which you showed in your picture) it's ~/Library

/Library = /Library
~/Library = /Users/$(whoami)/Library

whoami = current user name

Also if you're going to use terminal you need to either use quotes or an escape character for the space.

~/Library/Application\ Support/cDock/launch_fix.command

~/Library/"Application Support"/cDock/launch_fix.command

/Users/$(whoami)/Library/Application\ Support/cDock/launch_fix.command

 

[scapmac]

Once again it's NOT /Library (which you showed in your picture) it's ~/Library

/Library = /Library
~/Library = /Users/$(whoami)/Library

whoami = current user name

Also if you're going to use terminal you need to either use quotes or an escape character for the space.

~/Library/Application\ Support/cDock/launch_fix.command

~/Library/"Application Support"/cDock/launch_fix.command

/Users/$(whoami)/Library/Application\ Support/cDock/launch_fix.command

Each one ends up with the same thing.

scapling:~ scap$ ~/Library/"Application Support"/cDock/launch_fix.command
login item UNKNOWN

Now we need to install the SIMBL plugin at /Library/ScriptingAdditions/
Since this is a system location you must enter the admin password.

The code that will be run is as follows:

sudo cp -frX "/Users/scap/Library/Application Support/cDock/SIMBL.app/Contents/PlugIns/EasySIMBL.osax" "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/EasySIMBL.osax"

cp: /Users/scap/Library/Application Support/cDock/SIMBL.app/Contents/PlugIns/EasySIMBL.osax: No such file or directory

It doesn't even ask me for a password.

 

[w0lf]

Each one ends up with the same thing.

scapling:~ scap$ ~/Library/"Application Support"/cDock/launch_fix.command
login item UNKNOWN

Now we need to install the SIMBL plugin at /Library/ScriptingAdditions/
Since this is a system location you must enter the admin password.

The code that will be run is as follows:

sudo cp -frX "/Users/scap/Library/Application Support/cDock/SIMBL.app/Contents/PlugIns/EasySIMBL.osax" "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/EasySIMBL.osax"

cp: /Users/scap/Library/Application Support/cDock/SIMBL.app/Contents/PlugIns/EasySIMBL.osax: No such file or directory

It doesn't even ask me for a password.

They all do the same thing because they're all the same command. Those were just three examples of the proper way to write it.

Obviously it's not asking for your pass because the file it's trying to move is not there. You can copy the file manually from inside cDock it's at:

cDock.app/Contents/Resources/app_support/SIMBL.app

and needs to be moved to:

~/Library/Application Support/cDock/SIMBL.app

Are you sure you've tried installing a dock first though because if you had then that should already be there...

 

[c0ppo]

Using this from the very start. Excellent little app. Didn't even bother upgrading it since it worked perfectly in my case.

But got a new mac, wanted to start fresh so no time machine backup. Installed latest version and this is simply amazing! I especially love the fullscreen dock, always wanted a dock to be like that. Just added a little hack by pushing icons to left from centre (using horizontal dock).

Now it's looking really great, and still no problems. So I really want to thank author of this little app. Thanks man, I know it's not much, but...

 

[w0lf]

Each one ends up with the same thing.

scapling:~ scap$ ~/Library/"Application Support"/cDock/launch_fix.command
login item UNKNOWN

Now we need to install the SIMBL plugin at /Library/ScriptingAdditions/
Since this is a system location you must enter the admin password.

The code that will be run is as follows:

sudo cp -frX "/Users/scap/Library/Application Support/cDock/SIMBL.app/Contents/PlugIns/EasySIMBL.osax" "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/EasySIMBL.osax"

cp: /Users/scap/Library/Application Support/cDock/SIMBL.app/Contents/PlugIns/EasySIMBL.osax: No such file or directory

It doesn't even ask me for a password.

Do you by chance have your user account located off your boot drive?

Using this from the very start. Excellent little app. Didn't even bother upgrading it since it worked perfectly in my case.

But got a new mac, wanted to start fresh so no time machine backup. Installed latest version and this is simply amazing! I especially love the fullscreen dock, always wanted a dock to be like that. Just added a little hack by pushing icons to left from centre (using horizontal dock).

Now it's looking really great, and still no problems. So I really want to thank author of this little app. Thanks man, I know it's not much, but...

Thanks.

 

[the3ye]

I love fullscreen vertical dock. Quick question, any way to stop it from resizing when adding new icons/opening apps not from dock? Dock's width shrinks slightly, and it's annoying a bit.

 

[w0lf]

I love fullscreen vertical dock. Quick question, any way to stop it from resizing when adding new icons/opening apps not from dock? Dock's width shrinks slightly, and it's annoying a bit.

Not seeing this... Take 2 screenshots of the dock 1 before you open an app and 1 after. They can just be 100 x 50 starting from the edge of the screen.

 

[Traverse]

Running the installer doesn't seem to have any impact whatsoever. I hear ping.aiff, and my Dock seems to respawn, but it definitely doesn't look any different than stock. I have tried killall Dock, and rebooting, but either way, there's no perceptible change. Any ideas?

((( UPDATE )))

Well, I got it working manually. Thanks!

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Where did you get the indicator light files?

 

[Cabron]

awful decision cut off the 2d dock
as aways apple do...

 

[davidlv]

Sorry for the thread jack.
What's the situation using cDock in Yosemite?
Haven't downloaded the OS yet but I am considering installing it on my second backup Mac, a non-production 2011 Mini machine.
Should I completely uninstall cDock prior to the install of the new OS?

 

[kolax]

Sorry for the thread jack.
What's the situation using cDock in Yosemite?
Haven't downloaded the OS yet but I am considering installing it on my second backup Mac, a non-production 2011 Mini machine.
Should I completely uninstall cDock prior to the install of the new OS?

Don't need to 'uninstall' but I've never tried cDock with Yosemite since I joined the public beta, it just sat amongst my apps. Yosemite's 2D dock is what I was generally after on Mavericks.

 

[davidlv]

Sorry for the thread jack.
What's the situation using cDock in Yosemite?
Haven't downloaded the OS yet but I am considering installing it on my second backup Mac, a non-production 2011 Mini machine.
Should I completely uninstall cDock prior to the install of the new OS?

Oopps! Accessed the Souceforge HP for cDock, there in plain black ink, compatible with Yosemite. Cue the face palm image

 

[DrkStr]

Has anyone noticed if you have the dock positioned on left or right in 10.9 it loses it's 3d and becomes frosted glass? I've been using it like this for the last 5 months and literally just realized this.