Disabling Dock Mirror Effect?

[eleven7]

I managed to make my dock invisible by deleting the appropriate png files from System/Library/CoreServices/Dock package and love the new look, but I still have one little problem.

While the dock might be invisible, when I have an app which takes up a large area of my screen which means the bottom sits close to the top of the dock,(e.g. Safari/iTunes) an ugly reflection is seen in the dock. (see left pic)

Is there anyway to disable this mirroring/reflection effect? At the moment I just resize the windows to sit further above the dock and decreased the dock size, but since screen space on a 13.3 Macbook is limited as it is, I would prefer to get rid of the mirror effect all together and go back to having my app windows sitting hard against the dock.

 

[r.j.s]

You can make it the 2D dock by typing this into Terminal ...

$ defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

 

[eleven7]

Yeah thanks, that was my first stop, but it's not quite what I was after. I still want the 3D dock, I just don't want that mirroring effect if it's possible

 

[eleven7]

Actually, on second thoughts, you could be on to something there. Getting rid of the border on the 2D dock would be close enough to what I was trying to achieve. Will give it a go now

 

[r.j.s]

Yeah thanks, that was my first stop, but it's not quite what I was after. I still want the 3D dock, I just don't want that mirroring effect if it's possible

I don't think it is possible to disable just the mirror effect. I'm pretty sure you have to go 2D.